1 BOTTLE OF 75cl.

Bottles Produced 2480

Alcohol content: 13% vol.

Vitrarolo grape variety:

Synonyms

None known.

Historical notes

Testimonies of elderly farmers in the area where some vines were found, derive the name Vitrarolo from the characteristic of the shoots that, in the winter period, take on a glassy appearance and break easily.

Importance and diffusion

Its cultivation is limited to a few vines, present in the oldest vineyards of the Nebrodi area, this limited diffusion makes it one of the relic vines recovered thanks to the Sicily Region Project on the regional ampelographic platform.

Type: Red Wine.

Grape variety: Vitrarolo 100%.

Denomination: Vitrarolo.

Production area: Western Sicily, Misiliscemi.

Soil: Medium texture, deep with skeleton. Dark gray color.

Training and pruning: Counter-espalier, with short pruning with simple guyot.

Altitude: 80 m above sea level.

Planting density: approximately 4000 plants per hectare.

Yield: 80 quintals per hectare.

Malolactic: Completed.

Alcohol content: 13% alcohol

Serving temperature: 16/18°C

Harvest period: First ten days of September.

Fermentation: Steel.

Aging: 50% second passage barriques. 50% steel.