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Classification
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Vernaccia di Oristano Doc
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Grapes
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Vernaccia 100% - Harvest 1991
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Zone of production
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Lower valley of the Tirso river, Sinis
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Height
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few meters above sea level
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Climate
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Typically Mediterranean, with mild winters, limited rainfall and very hot and windy summers
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Soil
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Alluvial soil, sandy, slightly clayey
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Method of cultivation
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Sapling plants of grown vineyards, espalier (Guyot and spurred cordon)
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Yeld per hectare
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4.000 - 5.000 kg
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Vinification
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According to tradition, in white, with soft pressing and fermentation at controlled temperature
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Aging
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Matured in oak barrels for about 10 years and chestnut, kept unfilled to allow to enable the development of the characteristic veil of flor yeast that produces the unmistakable flavors of Vernaccia di Oristano
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Color
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Golden yellow with amber highlights
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Bouquet
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Intense, ample, ethereal, with the characteristic note of the flowering almond
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Taste
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Dry and full, which lies along a pleasantly sour and bitter, hot and harmonious. Vigorous and velvety
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Service temperature
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10° C for aperitif, 16° C for dessert
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Matching
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Delicious dessert and meditation wine and, if it is served chilled, as an aperitif. It goes well with some Sardinian sweets: seadsas, amaretti and gueffus, and it goes particularly well with the typical mullet roe (bottarga)
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