Bressan - Schioppettino 2018 - Venezia Giulia IGP - 75cl

                

BOTTLE 75cl.

It tells of ancient Roman memories
Schioppettino is certainly one of the most typical and elegant indigenous Friulian vines: purplish-red in color and a scent reminiscent of wild blackberry, raspberry and blueberry. With aging it evolves into an elegant bouquet of undergrowth, moss, aromatic wood.

VINEYARD:

- LOCATION: CORONA (Village of the Municipality of Mariano del Friuli)

– GORIZIA

- NAME OF THE VINEYARD: “Sclupìt”

- MAP SHEET: 1 – 5 - Census Municipality of Corona

- PARTICLES CAT.: 1362 (partial) - 1369

- TYPE OF SOIL: predominantly skeletal, with a strong presence of iron sesquioxides. These pedological characteristics, associated with the poor supply of organic substance and nutritional elements, induce an extremely moderate vegetative-productive development in the vine, with positive repercussions on the MACRO and MICRO compositional components of the grapes and wine.

- TOTAL AREA: 3.88.30 Ha.

- YEAR OF PLANT: 1982

- SYSTEM SPACING: 2.70 x 1.20 m.

- STUMPS PER HECTARE: 3086

- EXPOSURE: Southern, with rows oriented EAST - WEST

- TRAINING FORM: GUYOT cultivation technique. (We were forced to adopt this system due to the great vegetative vigor of the species). Summer pruning for a better leaf/bunches of grape ratio, and thinning of the bunches before veraison. No fertilization.

GRAPE:

- VARIETY: SCHIOPPETTINO 100%

- DOC AREA: Isonzo del Friuli

- ROOTSTOCKS: SO 4

- CLONAL SELECTION: Select. Friuli Venezia Giulia

- YIELD PER HECTARE: Approximately 3.5 – 3.7 tons / per hectare

- YIELD PER STRAIN: 0.800 – 1 kg / per plant

HARVEST: in forced over-ripening (to attenuate the very high congenital fixed acidity of the species) calculated according to the maturation curve. Harvest carried out exclusively by hand.

WINE: Destemming and pressing of the grapes, following spontaneous fermentation (... yeasts have always been naturally present on the grapes...) on the skins for about 30 days, during which various punchings, pumping overs and 1 or 2 " daily delestage”; once this phase is completed, the fermented must is separated from the skins, which are gently squeezed only to facilitate total draining and nothing else.

Then, as ancient tradition dictates, the wine is placed in different 2000 liter barrels, handcrafted, still using different varieties of wood typical of the area, where the secondary fermentation activity continues.

In these barrels the wine can begin its life, deciding autonomously and completely naturally when to carry out the malolactic fermentation... whether all together or in several years, a little at a time... (... the man who respects nature can never replace it...). In the following 4 - 5 years the wine continues its refinement "on the yeasts" ("sur lies") with periodic "batonnage" (stirring of the yeasts).

When the wine has reached satisfactory maturation, the different barrels are decanted into a single steel container, where it will remain for at least 3 months, to favor the fusion of the different souls and the natural decantation of the coarse parts on the bottom; then, bottled, without any filtration and placed in wooden baskets with a capacity of 500 bottles and housed in a warehouse with a constant temperature for subsequent refinement.

- Total acidity: from 7.80 g/l to 8.50 g/l

ORGANOLEPTIC EXAMINATION: Wine with excellent body, with very good fixed acidity which however does not hide its warm and velvety fullness. Intense ruby ​​red color with garnet and purple hints. Vinous, fruity aroma, reminiscent of wild blackberry, raspberry, blueberry. With aging it evolves into an elegant bouquet of undergrowth, moss, species and pepper.

HISTORICAL NOTES: Schioppettino is certainly one of the most particular and typical indigenous - Friulian vines, originating in all likelihood in the Friulian area between the Udine and Gorizia districts. Rovasenda, as reported by Poggi, mentions the Schioppettino, with a tomentose shoot and a glabrous, five-lobed leaf, coming from the eastern part of Friuli.

Schioppettino is widespread in limited quantities due to the great difficulties of cultivation and winemaking and the very high professionalism it requires of the winemaker.

            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

BRAND	BRESSAN
SIZE	75cl
CATEGORY	RED WINE
NATIONALITY	ITALIA
VARIETY	SCHIOPPETTINO
REGION	FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA
APPELLATION	VENEZIA GIULIA IGP
ALLERGENS	CONTAINS SULPHITES