Sweet
Il Passo
By Cinque Quinti, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
A white passito from a small parcel of Traminer at Ozzano Monferrato, dried on the vine and aged in acacia, in 375 ml bottles (2,640 of the 2022). 16% vol.
Tasting notes
Amber, warm colour. Warm notes of apricot, honey and saffron, exotic overripe fruit and banana. Enveloping, tasting of raisins; sweet but never cloying.
Pairs well with
Blue cheeses with strong flavours, dark chocolate, strawberries or dry pastries.
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Vino Bianco da uve appassite
- Grape
- Traminer 100%
- Production area
- Ozzano Monferrato (AL), 240 m above sea level
- Soil
- Calcareous soil with clay veins
- Exposure
- North
- Harvest
- 19 September 2022 (2022 technical sheet), picked by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2000, Guyot training
- Vinification
- Grapes dried in the vineyard for 25 days by cutting the fruiting cane; fermentation at 21°C for 15 days; skin contact of 12 hours during soft pressing; 19 months in acacia tonneaux; 7 months in bottle; bottled 4 July 2024.
- Serving temperature
- 14-16°C (the shop page says it can also be served slightly cool)
- Storage
- Best evolutionary peak: 7 years
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