Messapia
Verdeca IGT Salento
Verdeca grapes express themselves with the characteristic straw yellow and greenish highlights. The nose has interesting hints of wild flowers together with citrus fruits as bergamot and exotic as pineapple. It has a fresh taste, sapid and nicely persistent. Very good with seafood dishes and fresh cheese. Serve at 8-10° C.
VINTAGE
2011
GRAPES
Verdeca
AREA OF PRODUCTION
Salice Salentino
TRAINING SYSTEM
Cordon spur with 5.000 vinestocks per hectare
YIELD IN GRAPE per HECTARE
7,5 tonnes
AGE AVERAGE OF THE VINEYARDS
13 years
HARVEST
Third decade of August
VINIFICATION
Cold maceration and following static decantation. Fermentation in steel tanks at a checked temperature of 14-16° C. and permanence on the thin dregs of fermentation for about 3 months.
ALCOHOL
11.5 % Vol.
AWARDS
Vendemmia ’03 – 2 Bicchieri (Vini d’Italia 2005/ Gambero Rosso)
Vendemmia ’02 – 2 Bicchieri (Vini d’Italia 2004/ Gambero Rosso)
