Sweet
Satifol
By Adriano Marco e Vittorio, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
A late-harvest sweet white from botrytised grapes; Satifol is dialect for 'are you crazy?'.
Tasting notes
Brilliant straw with gold highlights; yellow and acacia flowers, honey, dried apricot and pear; long, warm finish.
Pairs well with
End-of-meal dessert: bunet with amaretti, torrone, pastiera, baba au rhum; also dried fruit, nuts, liver dishes and Roquefort.
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Vino di uve stramature
- Production area
- San Rocco Seno d'Elvio (Alba), well-ventilated vineyards, 300 m above sea level
- Soil
- Lequio formation (grey marl alternating with sand)
- Harvest
- By hand, late, after mid-November
- Vineyard planting
- 0.5 hectare, vines about 30 years old
- Vinification
- Grapes overripen on the vine or in crates depending on the year and are soft-pressed; long, slow fermentation in steel at 15 to 16 C; ageing either half in wood and half in steel or all in steel, then bottle; 0.375 l format.
- Serving temperature
- 14 to 16 C
- Storage
- Dark, dry place at a constant temperature below 20 C
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