Canapale Offida Pecorino DOCG Bio 2024
ORGANIC WINE
STOPPER: certified cork, suitable for aging.
MEANING OF THE NAME: The “Porta Canapale” is the gate of the medieval walls of our town Montefiore dell'Aso. Gate that overlooks the Val d'Aso, where our vineyards are located.
GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Pecorino
LOCATION: Montefiore dell'Aso (AP)
ALTITUDE: 250/300m above sea level
ALCOHOL: 14.50% (variable by vintage)
COLOR: straw yellow
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 10-12°C
PAIRING: fresh cheeses, white meat, fish
HARVEST
Grapes are hand-picked, placed in small containers, and immediately transported to the cellar to be processed. The harvest takes place early in the morning or late in the afternoon to avoid the hot hours. During the harvest, dry ice is used to inertize the grapes from oxygen and to lower their temperature.
SOIL TYPE Medium texture, with a high presence of gravel.
EXPOSURE south-west
PRODUCTION AREA Estate-owned vineyards located in the Montefiore dell'Aso area.
GRAPES Pecorino 100%.
AGE OF THE VINEYARD 20-25 years
YIELD PER VINE Approximately 3.00 kg of grapes.
YIELD PER HECTARE approximately 120 quintals of grapes
TRAINING SYSTEM: counter-espalier
PRUNING SYSTEM spurred cordon
PLANTING DENSITY 4,000 vines per hectare.
FERMENTATION
The must is first cold decanted to have its maximum cleanliness. Once the must has clarified, fermentation begins.
Fermentation occurs with selected yeasts in steel tanks at a controlled temperature of about 10-12°, for about 20 days. Once fermentation is finished, the cloudy wine is placed in perfectly clean tanks to clarify.
The wine is removed from the heavy fermentation lees and left on the fine lees. The refinement takes place in steel with continuous “remuage” of the product to extract positive properties from the fine lees.
During February the wine is clarified, filtered and bottled.
It is released on the market in March following the harvest.
COLOR straw yellow
SERVING TEMPERATURE 10/12°C
PAIRINGS fresh cheeses, white meat, fish