IL BIANCO from black to white

Classification: IGT: Indicazione Geografica Tipica - Veneto

Wine type: Dry white wine

Grape varieties: 60% white Rondinella, 15% Golden traminer, 15% Kerner, 10% cross Manzoni

Background: during some usual inspections through vineyards, in 1999 I discovered some white toning bunches of vine branches from an old Rondinella grape strain. I was curious and I begun to experiment with the production of strains with perfectly white grapes. Nowadays it is feasible and it’s possible to obtain a part of vineyard with perfect material. Differences from a black Rondinella grape are medium vigour and lighter colour leaves along with grapes that assume a copper colour according to insolation.

Other species of vine chosen: so, not by chance, even complementary species of vine derive from different stubs through crosses. The choice of them has been determined by a personal and subjective idea of equilibrium as well as personality.

Technical data: Vineyard vintage 1998/2003 – Kind of culture Guyot - 6.500 CEPPI/hA

Area: East Valpolicella Valley

Output: 60-80Q.li –wine output 55-60%

Operations: selection of sprouts, defoliation, thinning out of bunches Harvest, Fermentation, and Maturation: harvest is made on the second and third ten days of September, grapes are put on wooden baskets, pressing with removal of stalks, cryomaceration with peels for some hours, natural decantation and controlled fermentation for 15 days.

Technical data: Alcohol 13 - Non-reducing extract 20,00 g/l - Tot. ac. 4,50 g/l - pH 3,45

Wine description: light green with yellow hues, well structured wine with a
bouquet that reminds citrus trees and perennial herbs like mint, it is stout
inside the mouth and of great persistence

Serving suggestions: fish, Risotto with sparrow-grass, soups, aperitifs…