Sweet
Vendemmia Tardiva Vigna Marini
By Teresa Soria Winery, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
A late-harvest Moscato from grapes dried in crates for 60 to 90 days, aged 12 to 24 months in barriques.
Tasting notes
Bright amber-yellow. Candied citrus peel on the nose; the palate is notable for residual sugar and alcohol, giving a soft, fruity taste.
Pairs well with
A meditation wine, excellent with blue goat cheeses, aged Robiola di Roccaverano or Blu di Lanzo.
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Moscato d'Asti DOCG
- Grape
- Moscato Bianco di Canelli 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Vigna Marini
- Production area
- Marini hill, Castiglione Tinella, about 450 m, steep south-east slopes. In some vintages, grapes from the Moncucco vineyards are used, and the label then reads Vigna Moncucco
- Soil
- Marl and sand
- Exposure
- South-east
- Harvest
- Late Harvest
- Vineyard planting
- Oldest vines, loosest bunches selected
- Vinification
- The loosest bunches from the oldest vines are laid in a single layer in crates and dried for 60 to 90 days, concentrating sugars up to 450 g/l, more if botrytis develops. Pressed very slowly, the must is clarified and filtered through Dutch bags and ferments in steel for at least a month. At 14% alcohol fermentation is stopped by chilling; the wine rests on fine lees for 12 or 24 months in barriques depending on the year, then is bottled. At least 24 months in bottle.
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