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Santa Margherita: The vineyard, at 490 m asl, is divided into 4 parcels of calcareous-sandy marl, alternating with sand and calcarenites. The Costa Sud and Costa Nord parcels, trained as saplings, have soils rich in chalk and fossils and yield salinity and complexity. The Terrazza and Trefile parcels, trained as saplings on espaliers, have stony clay-limestone soils and yield pulp and acidity.
CLASSIFICATION
DOC Sicily
VARIETY
Cricket
ALTITUDE
490 m above sea level
GROUND
Clay/limestone sand surface
on a layer of compact rock of limestone origin
on a layer of compact rock of limestone origin
AGRICULTURE
Biodinamioca, organic certification,
no chemical intervention
no chemical intervention
TRAINING SYSTEM
Sapling
AVERAGE AGE OF PLANTS
6 years
PLANT DENSITY
5,300 vines per hectare
TIME OF HARVEST
First ten days of September
FERMENTATION
In cement tanks with indigenous yeasts and 25HL Austrian wooden barrels of oval shape
REFINEMENT
For 10 months a part in concrete and a part in 25HL Austrian wooden barrels of oval shape, 4 months in bottle
