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Bianco Kaplja “Special Release”

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Bianco Kaplja “Special Release”

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The Special Release is a selection of botrytized grapes. The wine can only be made when conditions are perfect so this wine is not made every vintage.

Appellation:  Venezia Giulia IGT

Region:  Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Type: Botrytized savory wine,

Blend: Chardonnay, Nekaj (Friulano), Malvasia

Certified Organic

Wine Details:

Tasting Notes:
Color: Intense, deep gold.
Bouquet: Intense dried fruit, herbs and mineral notes.
Taste: Not sweet but savory with balanced acidity. Elegant and substantial but not heavy, with rich and pleasant minerality.
Unfiltered: The presence of sediments is essential to keep the wine alive and to conserve it.
Serve: The temperature must not be below 15 degrees C/ 59 degrees F. Wine born the natural way, without cooling during fermentation, is unable to entirely express its character at too low a temperature.
Food Pairing: Mediterranean cuisine.

Vinyard Notes:
Vineyard: Gradiscutta (planted in 1991), Gorizia.
Altitude: 110 m a.s.l.
Exposure: South, south-west.
Cultivation method: Guyot unilateral.
Soil: Ponca – Opoka, Sandstone/Marl.
Yield: 20 qq per Ha.

Winemaking Notes:
Harvest: Picked berry by berry in mid-October. Rain in early October and cool temperatures allow the grapes to form botrytis cinerea.
Vinification: The maceration begin in big barrels of oak for 60 to 90 days. Finished the fermentation it gets aged in 20 hl barrels for 6 years and rest for 4 year in the bottles. The wine is bottled with no cleaning and without filtration. The resulting natural sediments preserve and protect the wine.