Description
Grifalco Gricos Organic Aglianico del Vulture DOC 2019
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Area: Basilicata
The Grifalco company was founded in 2004 by the desire of Fabrizio and Cecilia Piccin.
The company has a surface of 16 hectares with age of the vineyards ranging from 10 years up to 80 years, divided into several municipalities of the Vulture, this because being able to work with different land allows you to have greater complexity in the wines that are produced.
Number of bottles: 40.000
Production area: Vulture, the vineyards are located in the municipality of Venosa, Maschito and Forenza.
Grape: Aglianico 100% organic certificate
Age of the vineyards: 10-30 years
Altitude: 450-550 mt a.s.l.
Breeding system: the fruit head is about 70 cm from the ground with Guyot system leaving about 10/12 buds.
Density: 5,000 plants per hectare.
Manual selection of the grapes in the field, they are put into crates and brought to the cellar within a few hours, followed by secondary selection carried out by our Selectiv ‘Process Winery of Volentieri-Pellenc, the linear destemming system that allows us to eliminate any residue green maintaining the best integrity of the berries and allowing us to use only the berries that reached the perfect phenolic maturity.
Soft destemming in steel tanks where fermentation takes place with controlled temperature never higher than 28 degrees. Then the wine is drawn off leaving only the fine lees with which it starts aging in second-passage American oak barrels and second-passage French oak tonneau in which the malolactic fermentation takes place. Here they stay for the next 6 \ 12 months, at the end of which period the mass is prepared and placed in steel until bottling.
Aging in the bottle: at least 4 months
Alcohol: 13 % Vol
Potential life: 5/10 years.
