Clone Varietal: VCR5
Rootstock: P1103
Production System: Simple Espalier
Density/ha: 4,000 plant
Type of pruning: Spur Pruning
Bud Load/ha: 50,000
Viticultural Practices: Pruning, shoot hedging, defoliation in the area of the bunches, cluster thinning of bunches to control production.
Harvest: Manual and selective.
Asti Method
- Table with manual selection of bunches;
- Destemming of fresh grapes;
- Discontinuous and gentle pressing;- Cold static cleaning the cold must;
- Use of selected Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts;
- Alcoholic fermentation in pressure tank at 12°C to 14ºC;
- Fermentation stops at 7.5% alcohol, remaining a residual concentration of natural sugars;
- Filtration;
- Bottling and labeling.
Alcohol: 7,5%
Total Acidity: 92 meq/L of tartaric acid
Volatile acidity: 4.33 meq/L acetic acid
Density: 1.025
Dry Extract: 85 g/L
Total/Free SO2: 95 / 21.1 mg/L
Total sugars in glucose: 60 g/L
pH: 3.31
Pressure: 6 kg/cm2