Growing Conditions
***Soil***:
The vineyards are planted on plots of land with different and composite morphological characteristics, as well as with a strong presence of limestone. These areas are also rich in rocks and rather rich in clay and are located at an altitude between 100 and 300 meters above sea level, facing West - South/West.
***Vine Training***:
Cordon spur system
***Planting Density***:
Between 3.600 to 5.500 vine stocks/Ha.
***Climate***:
Normal with favourable summer temperatures, rather dry and excellent sunshine. Good fall conditions yielding a perfect harvest and maturation, but scarce production.
Harvest
The grapes were few but extraordinary.
Winemaking
14 – day maceration with temperature control, and it was followed by malolactic fermentation.
Aging
Three quarters of the wine aged 21 months in French oak barrels (65% new and the rest having been used one or twice before). The remaining wine aged in Yugoslavian oak that were used once or twice before. After ageing in the barriques the wine had a good fining, due to the exhuberance of the tannins both from the grapes and from the wood. As the wine had plenty of polyphenols, we aged the 1982 Sassicaia in new wood for a good period of time, knowing that its very interesting phenolic patrimony needed intensive polymerization.
