Sauvignon Collio | Klanjshek

NAME: Collio DOC

TYPE: white

GRAPES: 100% sauvignon

ORIGIN: Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia

EVOLUTION: 3-4 years

SERVICE TEMPERATURE: 10-12° C

RECOMMENDED GLASS: medium-sized white wine glass

ALCOHOL VOLUME: 12.5-13.5% (depending on the vintage)

FORMAT:  75 cl

THE WINE

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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SOFTNESS: ◼︎◼︎◼︎◻︎◻︎

NOTES FROM OUR SOMMELIERS

👁 a beautiful straw yellow;

👃🏻 expresses the scents of the vine, with tomato leaf, green pepper, yellow peach, mineral and spicy hints;

👄 on the palate it is dry and expresses notable structure: it is savory, fresh and decisive.

RECOMMENDED COMBINATION

A fine and very balanced Sauvignon, which pairs perfectly with many types of dishes, especially fish-based, white meat and vegetables.

REFINEMENT

Pure Sauvignon blanc grown on light and clay soils. Manual harvest in boxes at the end of September.

Fermentation in the presence of the skins in open 22 hl vats, without temperature control and without selected yeasts, ferments and clarifications, for about a month and a half. This is followed by decanting for a month in stainless steel tanks, then in 12 hl oak barrels for at least a year and a half in bottles for at least 5 months.

YOU WILL LOVE IT FOR...

its intense territoriality .

TERRITORY OF ORIGIN

TERROR

The company is located in the Collio Goriziano. The wines produced in this area are the result of a unique terroir. The Collio Goriziano includes the northern hilly area of ​​the province of Gorizia, between the Isonzo and Judrio rivers. The area is close to the border with Slovenia, in a deeply interconnected territory on both sides of the border. The Collio includes approximately 1,500 hectares of vineyards located on a sequence of hills along the east-west direction (altitude between 60 and 270 metres), which have large surfaces with excellent exposure, ideal for quality viticulture.

The cultivation of vines in the Collio dates back to Roman times, while the names of the wines that made the area famous have emerged since the seventeenth century: Ribolla, Cividino, Refosco, Corvino. Modern viticulture arrived in the Collio in the second half of the nineteenth century. Then the prevalence of white grape varieties is already marked.

After the Second World War, the Collio was separated from the border, giving rise to two wine-growing areas, the Italian Collio and the Brda on the Slovenian side.

CELLAR

In the heart of the Collio Goriziano, in Oslavia, on the hill a stone's throw from the monumental Military Shrine, the vineyards of the Klanjscek Agricultural Company are located.

The winery is young but boasts solid roots. The cultivation has been organic since 2016, but nature has always given it: a few days of maceration on the skins and minimal doses of sulfur dioxide.

The oldest vines date back to 1978, with half a hectare dedicated to Italian Riesling (Welschriesling), a variety that was particularly widespread in Collio at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and which very few still cultivate today. All in just 3 and a half hectares of vineyards.