Florio - Marsala - Superiore Riserva Semisecco 2001
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Item# 83840-01/1PK
Wine Enthusiast
95pt
Decanter
96pt
Wine Advocate
94+pt
Ageing
20 years. The first stage of ageing took place in old 16 hl tuns. Since July 2008 it has been in the 25.5 hl 6 DAG vat, 20 metres away in
the 140-metre - long Cantine Garibaldi, 115 metres from the sea.
Food pairing
Perfect as meditation wine.
Serve at a temperature between 14-16C.
Serve at a temperature between 14-16C.
Grapes
White grapes for DOC Marsala
Harvest
Annual harvest, starting in mid-September, of over-ripened
grapes that are left on the vine so that they become fully ripe
and high in residual sugars and polyphenols.
Tasting notes
Amber. Scents of fruit preserved in alcohol and chestnuts on the nose. Dry and persistent tannins, with flavours of liquorice, nougat and dark cocoa on the palate.
Vinification
Powerful extraction forces come into play through the use of the traditional wine press to create musts loaded with colour,
high dry extracts and intense savoury marine notes. Fermentation in cement, marked by continuous micro-oxygenation, which carries
on even after fermentation, preparing the wine for its encounter with alcohol, thus initiating the “process of producing Marsala DOCâ€.
The encounter of wine, mistelle (grape must used to make DOC Marsala with the mutage technique, which involves the addition of ethyl alcohol derived from vines so that the fermentation process is stopped), cooked must and a small percentage of alcohol.
The encounter of wine, mistelle (grape must used to make DOC Marsala with the mutage technique, which involves the addition of ethyl alcohol derived from vines so that the fermentation process is stopped), cooked must and a small percentage of alcohol.
