
ITHAA
Vermentino - Colli di Luni DOC
It is the wine that best conveys the intensity and depth of the “terroir” of the estate. It’s produced only in years in which grapes can support important maturations without altering the balance. It’s obtained from the vines that in their maturity brought in their berries the deeper soil sediments. The grapes harvested in early October undergo, during fermentation, a maceration process on the peels for a period of approximately seven days. Must finishes its fermentation in stainless steel containers and in oak barrels and remains “sur lie” with its “batonnage” for about nine months.
The wine is bottled without fining or filtration and the resulting wine is aged in bottle for nine months before the sale.
Regional District Liguria
Vineyards extension 11 hectars
ITG East Liguria’s Vineyard extension 1 hectar
Ground mixture of sand and silt with skeleton
Vine 100% Vermentino (over 40 years old vines)
Number of Bottles 2.500 bottles
Bottling
Bottling is done in mid-July without clarification and with a mild filtration, affecting as less as possible the complex texture formed in the wine, complexity that we should further increase in refining in the bottle. At bottling time specifications were: Alcohol 14.3% vol., 5 ‰ acidity, ph 3.40, dry extract 24 q/l
It has to be served in large glasses at a temperature of about 13%. The food combinations can be: the Catalan shrimps, codfish stew, the Livorno style cooked codfish, rabbit casserole with olives. Medium aged goat cheeses.
From the stylistic point of view Ithaa is exploring another side of Vermentino Colli di Luni, one deep and somewhat dark side, The Dark Side of the Moon Wine; so dark that when the wine is poured into the glass, it gives us an explosion of light.