Merk: Vini d'annata

Grape blend: 85 % Cabernet Sauvignon 15 % Cabernet Franc

Climate: Normal with favourable summer temperatures, rather dry and excellent sunshine.
Good fall conditions yielding a perfect harvest and maturation, but scarce production.

Harvest: The grapes were few but extraordinary.

Wine making: 14 – day maceration with temperature control, and it was followed by malolactic
fermentation.

Ageing: Three quarters of the wine aged 21 months in French oak barrels (65% new and the rest having been used one or twice before). The remaining wine aged in Yugoslavian oak that were used once or twice before.
After ageing in the barriques the wine had a good fining, due to the exhuberance of the tannins both from the grapes and from the wood. As the wine had plenty of polyphenols, we aged the 1982 Sassicaia in new wood for a good period of time, knowing that its very interesting phenolic patrimony needed intensive polymerization.


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