Marsala Vergine Riserva Stravecchio or is produced by vinification in bianco grape vines Grillo, Inzolia, cataracts and other authorized by the specification. If the wine is not made additions of wine or cooked siphon but only alcohol or spirit, after an aging at least 10 years Marsala Vergine Riserva is defined or Stravecchio.
The specification for the production of Marsala Vergine Riserva Stravecchio or requires:
alcohol content of at least 18% off; natural sugar alcohol in less than 4%; solids (indirect method) at least 22 g / l; fixed acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) of not less than 3.50 g / l; volatile acidity (expressed as acetic acid) up to 1.3 g / l; Aging least ten years.
Special reserve aged over 20 years in small oak barrels, is the result of a masterful winemaking and correct a patient's age according to the traditional method Soleras with three barrels of overlapping.
It's classic and historic wine Marsala. Absolutely "virgin," Solera is the blending of different vintages, that is, changes of rates of small amounts youngest wine in vats that contain older wines, to achieve "perpetual."
Only the best grapes Grillo and Catarratto of grape harvest 1962 for this Marsala Vergine aged for beyond forty years in barrels of rovere of Slavonia. Wine from meditation for excellence.
• gold, produced from white grapes, it is, the addition of cooked. • amber produced from white grapes, with the addition of cooked more than 1%. • ruby made from black grapes, with the possible addition of up to 30% of white grapes and is, the addition of cooked.
For the sugar residue are distinguished:
• dry, with sugars less than 40 gr. per liter • semi-dry, with sugars above 40 degrees. per liter and less than 100 gr. per liter • sweet, with sugars over 100 gr. per liter
Features for Production:
• Fine, Minimum 1 year of aging. • Superior, minimum 2 years of aging. • Superiore Riserva, minimum 4 years of aging. • Virgin, minimum 5 years of aging. • Virgin Reserve, minimum 10 years of aging.
