Features
Name:
Verdeca Sette Lune IGP Salento 2024 L'archetipo
Terrain:
clayey-loamy with considerable presence of siliceous pie-triscum and humus.
Cellar
Located in the Castellaneta countryside, at the foot of the Bari Murgia, it was founded by Francesco Valentino Dibenedetto, a farmer from birth, who later also became an agronomist. As early as the 1980s, he began converting the farm to organic farming, moving on to biodynamic practices in 2000. After a few years, he realised that there was still something standing in the way of a return to the archetypal situation of the soil, the ecosystem and thus also the vineyard. Inspired by the non-interventionist practices of Masanobu Fukuoka, in which the synergies between all the rings of the ecosystem are triggered, he switched to synergistic agriculture, for which, among other things, ploughing is no longer practised.This new adventure developed together with his wife Anna Maria and his four children: Carlo Nazareno, Domenico, Andrea, and Maria Clelia. It is thanks to the constant and responsible commitment of all of them that it was possible to build the current wine cellar, all in tuff, where in these precise climatic conditions it is possible to valorise the prized estate grapes without the use of chemicals. The entry into the company of the new generation, under the guidance of Francesco Valentino's wealth of experience, can only give impetus and vitality to the archetype.
Description
Vino Verdeca Sette Lune IGP Salento 2024 della cantina L'archetipo ottenuto con fermentazione spontanea su bucce e lunga macerazione (circa 7 mesi), senza filtrazioni né chiarifiche. Affinato 2 anni in acciaio sulle fecce fini con agitazioni periodiche e minimo uso di solfiti. Si tratta di un vino intenso e complesso, con note fruttate, floreali ed erbacee; strutturato, tannico, fresco e persistente.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Ha un colore giallo dorato, presenta inten-se note fruttate, erbacee, floreali e minerali. Media corporatura, ric-co di estratto e tannini, con un’ottima acidità e persistenza.
Storage time:
5-7 years
Vinification
fermenta spontaneamente grazie all’aggiunta di pied de cuve contenente lieviti indigeni, gli unici in grado di inter-pretare al meglio il nostro terroir. Dopo 7 lune (circa sette mesi) di macerazione con le bucce, in ambiente riducente, in presenza della stessa anidride carbonica derivante dalla fermentazione alcolica e successiva malo-lattica, le vinacce vengono allontanate mediante pressatura soffice. Decantazione naturale senza chiarificanti. Non filtrato
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