Masciarelli

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC Villa Gemma

- Organoleptic sheet:

Colour: Dark ruby red, bluish glints; Bouquet: Very intense - complex - full - fine; Taste: Full - fruity - flowery - spicy (ripe red fruits of the forest, blackberries, peonies, eucalyptus, old rose, vanilla, cocoa, leather, humus); Serving suggestions: Roasted or marinated wild boar – roast lamb – red meat in general, particularly game – strong chees – bitter chocolate

 - Grape variety: 100% Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

- First produced: 1984

- Average production: 30.000 0,75 l - 500 magnum - 270 jeroboam

- Vineyard location:S. Martino sulla Marrucina

- Vineyard name, size and altitude: Colle Cave, 14 hectares, 400 m  east facing

- Yield per hectare and soil: 8000 kg; limey and clay soil

- Trailing and pruning system: plain guyot

- Installation density: 9000 plants per hectare

- Age of production vines: 20 years old

- Harvesting period: end October

- Fermentation: in stainless steel till 1996 and wood from 1997

- Lenght of fermentation andprocess of maceration: 15-20 days fermentation, 20-30 days maceration

- Malolactic fermentation: totally completed

- Chemical analysis: ph 3.60 ; total acidity 5.50 ; alcohol content 14.50 % approx.

- Ageing before bottling: 36 months (18 to 24 months in new barriques )

Region Abruzzo

Grapes Used: Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 100%

Alcohol:14.50%