Poggio Antico
Rosso di Montalcino D.O.C.  2003

Organoleptic Characteristics

Color

Beautiful deep ruby red.

Bouquet

Intense, with loads of red ripe fruit, plum and black cherry.

Taste

Rich, warm, round, concentrated and silky. Great vitality and persistent.

Technical Characteristics

Grape Variety

Sangiovese 100%

Alcohol by volume

13,47%

Net Dry Extract

33,90 g/liter

Total Acidity (in Tartaric Acid)

5,72 g/liter

Volatile Acidity (in Acetic Acid)

0,54 g/liter

Soil Characteristics

With Eocene origins, rich in clay, which ensures a perfect drainage.

Vinification

In 80-hectoliter stain-less steel tanks, truncated-cone shaped, at controlled temperature, which never exceeds 32°C. First fermentation lasted 15 days. Thanks to the particular technical characteristics of these tanks, which also have a completely removable lid, the punch-down system is used, instead of the pump-over procedure, in order to achieve a better and gentler extraction, avoiding the use of pumps.

Aging

16 months in total, 12 of which in 500-liter French oak tonneaux.

Bottle-aging

Minimum 4 months of bottle aging before its release (end of January 2005). The wine was bottled in September 2004.

Winemaker

Carlo Ferrini