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Imported Wines > Italy > Procanico Grechetto
This is a combined varietal grape of it consists Procanico and Grechetto and as usual Italy has some sensational quality grapes. The Grechetto variety is both creamy and rich while the Procanico character helps then marry well.
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Antinori Orvieto Classico Secco Campogrande Procanico Grechetto 2005 750ml Tuscany Region Italy 750ml x 12
Antinori has produced Orvieto since 1922 and an Orvieto Classico since 1932. With the 1988 vintage, this wine was given the name 'Campogrande' Orvieto DOC Classico it consists of 40% Procanico, 40% Grechetto, 15% Verdello, 5% Drupeggio & Malvasia The heavy rains during the autumn season enabled the soil layers to restabilize after the testing summer season. The winter is cold and rainy with repeated fairly heavy snowfall. Thanks to the weather conditions, budbreak can be delayed by 10-15 days even for more precocious varieties. During flowering and fruit-set, the weather was remarkably wet and cool with the lowest temperatures. The vegetation develops well although with consistent delay through to veraison and ripening of the grapes. Intense pre-harvest selection was necessary because the weather conditions can caused over-production. Lastly, the harvest begins a couple of weeks later than average, when the grapes were perfectly healthy and ripe and showed a perfect balance of quantity and quality. This produces grapes from the Orvieto DOC Classico area. On harvesting, the grapes were destemmed and after a soft pressing, the must was immediately cooled down to 10°C in order to enduce its natural decantation. The juice is then racked and introduced into temperature controlled stainless steel tanks where alcoholic fermentation took place at a temperature which was not allowed to exceed 18°C. The wine is then transferred and stored for a short period in stainless steel tanks at a temperature of 10°C (in order to preserve the wine's youthful characteristics), then filtred and bottled. Alco : 11,5% vol. This wine has a brilliant, yellow-green in colour; on the nose, intensely fruity and elegant, in the mouth full and harmonious and soft.
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