Ramandolo

The Ramandoloist a sweet white wine from Friuli. He comes from the very small, only about 50 hectares comprehensive Ramandolo DOCG in the municipality of Nimis northeast of Udine, on the border with Slovenia. Only since 2001, this area is designated as a DOCG since these wines are also on sale. The vineyard history and in particular the production of sweet wines goes much further, at least to the early Middle Ages, back.

The wines are made exclusively from grapes of white verduzzo Giallo, which probably represents a variety of the verduzzo Friulano, or even identical with him. The often steep vineyards are on south-facing slopes in about 300-500 meters above sea level. To the north and north-east, the area is protected by the Monte Bernadia, to the south there is the Adriatic to open.

The reading does not begin until mid-October to mid-November and may, in ideal age to continue into December. Usually, can not be interpreted but the grapes dry out on the vine. Botrytis is undesirable. After de-stemming, the grapes are carefully pressed mostly fermented in stainless steel vats, in exceptional years, even in relatively small oak barrels very slowly. Then they are moved to new oak barrels and aged between 6 months and one year. After filling in the Celtic with characteristic spiral and Radsymbolen provided, 0.35 or 0.5 liter bottles they come to a further maturation period of at least half a year in the trade. Only high grades of large cohorts mature over several years in barrels. The average annual production is about 100,000 liters.

Successful Ramandolos are among the most outstanding sweet wines in Italy; they are often qualitatively to ask about the meaning expensive and famous Picolit. Ramandolos are bright golden yellow to amber-colored wine from a nuanced, never pushy sweetness and a differentiated acid structure; often they have intense almond or hazelnut flavors. Your alcohol content is 12 to 14 percent by volume, the content of residual sugar between 5-6 %, which is somewhat 80-90 grams / liter. A Ramandolo should be cooled, but not drunk cold. In bottles drawn Ramandolos, with the appropriate storage quality over many years without change of quality storable.