Syrah
Estate Sallier de La Tour
Syrah
Vintage 2019
The Ex-Pereto Vineyard has a clayey soil texture (14.4% sand and 32.5% clay) so it is moist in spring and dry in summer, which gives the vineyard a medium vigour. The southwest exposure guarantees good light and warmth in summer. The soil is very rich in potassium, which favours excellent ripening of the grapes and the accumulation of sugars, aromas and anthocyanins. A medium vigour lends itself, in relation to the characteristics of the vintage, to obtaining both full-bodied red wines as well as fresh and readily drinkable rose wines.
- Grapes: Syrah
- Appellation: Sicilia DOC
- Vine growing area: Sallier de La Tour Estate – Monreale (PA) – Sicily
- Training system: espalier
- Pruning system: spurred cordon
- Vines density: 4.000
- Yield per ha: 95 ql
- Fermentation: traditional in red
- Fermentation temperature: 28°C
- Duration of fermentation: 20 days
- Malolactic fermentation: fully developed
- Ageing: 30% of must for 12 months in second and third passage 225 liter French (Allier & Tronçais) oak barrels, 70% in staineless steel tanks
- Alcohol content: 14% Vol.
- Wine analytical data:pH 3.65 – TA 5.49 g/l – RS 0.2 g/l – TE 32 g/l
awards
- Guide: L'Espresso
- Year: 2012
- Prize or title conferred: I Migliori acquisti della Regione Rapporto Qualità/Prezzo
- Vintage: 2009
- Guide: Gambero Rosso
- Year: 2014
- Prize or title conferred: Oscar Bere Bene
- Vintage: 2011
- Guide: James Suckling
- Year: 2018
- Prize or title conferred: 92 punti
- Vintage: 2016
- Guide: Wine Enthusiast
- Year: 2020
- Prize or title conferred: 88
- Vintage: 2018
- Guide: James Suckling
- Year: 2020
- Prize or title conferred: 90
- Vintage: 2018
- Guide: James Suckling
- Year: 2021
- Prize or title conferred: 92
- Vintage: 2019
- Guide: Falstaff
- Year: 2021
- Prize or title conferred: 91
- Vintage: 2019
- Guide: I Vini di Veronelli
- Year: 2021
- Prize or title conferred: 91
- Vintage: 2019
