CROCUS

DENOMINATION: Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG Riserva “Crocus”

PRODUCTION ZONE: San Gimignano district

GRAPE VARIETY: Vernaccia di San Gimignano and other white grape varieties

SOIL COMPOSITION: Pliocene ochreous sands and calcareous concretions

TRAINING AND CULTIVATION SYSTEM: Guyot and spurred cordon. Total grassing, green harvests, meticulous manual selection of the ripest, best exposed bunches

DENSITY: 4600 vines/ha

PRODUCTION OF WINE PER HA: 45 hl

ALTITUDE: 210-280 m above sea level

MICROCLIMATE: damp in winter and spring, hot and dry in summer.

VINIFICATION: direct pressing of the grapes into pneumatic press. Controlled fermentation in new barrels with continuous “batonage”. It matures in the bottle for at least 4 months.

ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS:
Colour: pale straw yellow with greenish hues, tending towards golden with agepale yellow with greenish hues
Bouquet: expansive, fine, fruity and penetrating
Flavours: dry, full, velvety with scents of ripe fruit, vanilla and peach kernel

ALCOHOL CONTENT: 13°

SERVING TEMPERATURE: 10/11° C.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS: excellent with seafood hors d’oeurves, medium-mature cheeses, shellfish and baked fish. We highly recommend serving with: Rabbit in Vernaccia, saffron risotto.

PACKING: cardboard box containing six 0.750-litre bottles packed horizontally