Salento IGT Messapia Verdeca Bianco 2019 - Leone de Castris

Color: straw yellow and greenish reflections.

Smell: On the nose tantalizing hints of wild flowers that are accompanied by citrus notes of bergamot and exotic notes of
pineapple.

Taste: It has a fresh, sapid and pleasantly persistent taste.

Food matches: Excellent with seafood dishes and fresh cheeses.

SOIL: clay-silty
TRAINING: spurred cordon with 5000 plants per ha
AGE OF THE VINEYARD: 13 years
HARVEST: end of August
YIELD PER HA .: 75 q. there
VINIFICATION: cold maceration and fermentation in steel vats at a temperature of 14-16 ° C and permanence on the
lees for about 3 months.
AGING: minimum 3 months in steel
REFINEMENT IN BOTTLE: minimum 1 month

Leone de Castris

The Leone de Castris farm, born in 1665, began bottling its products in 1925 and in 1943 it was the first to create and bottle a rosé wine sold in Italy and the USA: the Five Roses. This wine today as then is the standard bearer of this company, with firm roots in Puglia, which has the aim of enhancing the products of the territory by making them known in Europe and in the world. of quality of Salento.