CAYENNA – Red Wine IGT Isola dei Nuraghi

Classification: Red Wine Isola dei Nuraghi IGT.

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Grenache.

Number of bottles: 3,000.

Municipality of production: Sorso (SS).

Land altitude: 70 meters above sea level.

Type of Soil: Medium-textured – Sandy with a fair presence of skeleton.

Training system: Spurred cordon.

Plant density: 5681 vines / ha.

Yield per hectare: 25 q.li/ha.

Harvest: Manual, in the first ten days of October.

Vinification: Cooling of the harvested grapes through the use of a cold room. Manual sorting of the bunches, soft destemming, manual sorting of the grapes. Cold pre-fermentative maceration and on the skins for about 30 days in steel at a temperature of 26 ° C.

Aging: In steel for 12 months, in new French oak barrigues for 24 months and at least 12 months in the bottle before being put on the market.

Color: Intense ruby ​​red, impenetrable, with purple hints.

Bouquet: Particularly engaging and rich: notes of tobacco, licorice, chocolate and leather alternate with spices and Mediterranean scrub.

Taste: Elegant, savory, vibrant entrance. Vigorous tannins, but at the same time fine and velvety, support a wine of great persistence in which we find the same aromatic components perceived on the nose. Definitely satisfying finish.

Total acidity: 5.8 gr./It.

Dry extract: 32.5 gr./It.

Residual sugars: 1.6 gr./It.

Alcohol: about 15%.