Description

Villa Raiano Falanghina IGT

White wine produced with Falanghina grapes comingfrom vines located in the province of Benevento. The grapes are harvested by hand and carried to the cellar in small boxes to avoid crushing them. The grapes are subjected to gentle crushing of whole bunches to get the free-run juice. Wine making and ageing on fine lees lasts 4 months and takes entirely place in stainless steel tanks.

Typology: White wine
Appellation Campania Igt
Grape: Falanghina 100%
Altitude: 500 m asl
Vine Training/Pruning :Guyot
Vineyard design: 4500 vines/hectare
Grape yield 80 quintals/hectare
Type of soil: calcareous clay, medium sandy silty
Harvest time: Third week of September
Wine making sedimentation after the gentle crushing of whole bunches; inoculated fermentation with selected yeasts; fermentation and ageng in stainlesssteel tanks

Fermentation: in stainless steel tanks at 16°C
Bottling time: first week of the month of
February following the harvest

The Grey Wolf

In the fourth Century BC., the Oscan tribes inhabited our area : Irpinia.

The word Irpinia comes in fact from their ancient language

Oscan chose the grey wolf as their symbol animal, being very popular in this area at the time. These tribes used to worship the wolf and
they used to offer preys to wolves in this area in order to have a peaceful cohabitation with wolf packs of the area.

The Oscan tribes firmly believed that wolves were spiritual animals, who ruled this land, in which the present tribes were only guests.

This was such an important symbol that we wanted to represent the Irpinia wolf in our label, while wondering in the boundless lands of
Irpinia.