Sweet
Ofelia
By Mura Mura, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
Ofelia is a sweet Moscato Passito DOC blending botrytised and icewine Moscato grapes, with about 200 g/l residual sugar, from a 0.5-hectare vineyard in Costigliole d'Asti.
Tasting notes
Honey, orange blossom, apricot.
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Piemonte DOC Moscato Passito
- Grape
- Moscato 100%
- Production area
- Costigliole d'Asti, 0.5 hectares, 160 m a.s.l.
- Soil
- Very rich in limestone
- Exposure
- West and south-east
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training, density 5000 vines/ha, yield of no more than 15 hl/ha of wine. Farmed under SQNPI protocols.
- Vinification
- Fermented at 24C in 500 litre French oak tonneaux and 400 litre ceramic amphorae (50% each). Aged 18 months, half in tonneaux and half in amphorae, then a further 6 months in bottle.
- Storage
- Can be cellared for at least 30 years.
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