Mufis dal siet

Those wines that bind their origin to a fungus, the Botrytis Cinerea, able to attack and metabolize the skin of the berries are called botrytized wines. Under normal circumstances this grey mould would also affect the pulp by making the berry explod; to become ?Noble? the botrytis requires an alternation of moisture and sun, a situation that occurs only in areas well defined and doesn't develop all the years completely. The grapes must be perfectly ripe to take advantage of the the attack of mould,to enrich and improve the concentrations usefull to get the considerable peculiar organoleptic changes; only in this way the "over ripening" induced by nature can become helpful.
The harvest must be manual of course and done of successive sortings, because the mould does not expand in a homogeneous and uniform way.
"Mufis dal siet", named the "mould" of 2007, is a meditation wine made from friuòano grapes (70%), picolit (25%) and muscat grapes (5%).
Thanks to the particular climatic conditions of the autumn of 2007 the berries were totally damaged by the botrytis cinerea, the attack of the mould was done entirely on the plants and for the picolit during the withering.

Major data in the vineyard

Soll: marl and sandstone clay
Vineyard: various small properties
Area: 1ha
Plantation density: 4000 plants per hectare
Average age of vines: 20 to 60 years
Average altitude: 175-300 m asl
Orientation: South-South East
Average yield per vine: 1-2kg
type of treatments: copper and sulphur
Working Soil: total grassing without fertilizing

wine-making, aging and refining

The fermentation and aging took place in demijohns of 54 litres for 10 months.
Clarifies and filtration are not made to keep intact the nuances given by botrytization.

Main analytical bottling data

Alcohol content: 11.50%
Residual sugar: 177 g / l
Total acidity: 9.00 g / l
Free sulphur: 45 mg / l
Total sulphur: 200 mg /
l Dry extract: 45 g / l