Grapes: Guarnaccia bianca (80%), Malvasia bianca (20%)
Rearing System: simple guyot
Type of environment: clays with compact skeleton
Agricultural Management: Biodynamic
Production Area: Saracena, Caccia land-district (450 Mt. above sea level) – Lungro, Scornavacca land-district (500 Mt. Above sea level)
Planting distance: m 2.50 x 1.00
Number of stumps for hectare: 3300
Harvest time: second week of Semptember
Type of harvest: manual
Wine making: maceration on skins for 1-2 days, spontaneous fermentation in amphora without temperature control
Maturation and refinement of the wine: in clay amphora for 8 months, bottle aging for 8-10 months
Filtration: Not filtered
The grape varieties we grow are: white guarnaccia, black and white malvasia , sweet magliocco and Saracena Muscatel.
With these varieties we produce, in addition to the famous “Moscato Passito di Saracena”, five different wine labels: three white and two red. This year we started the production of rosé.
