Cascina Gilli
Dlicà
Characteristics
It’s a sweet, meditative wine, with a high alcoholic content.
A few vine rows of malvasia that were not picked in time presented clusters whose berries were dried by the sun and consequently produced a higher alcohol wine. Thus this magnificent late harvest wine. Scents of wisteria and iris, typical of malvasia, complemented by wild berry preserves, dominate the nose, while the palate is warm and heady, velvet smooth and seductive, with a long-lingering finish.
Dlicà is the perfect sipped by itself at meal’s end or as the accompaniment any sweet. Serve at 12-14°.
Production area Castelnuovo Don Bosco vineyards
Grape 100% Malvasia di Schierano
Altitude and exposure 340 mt a.s.l.; south
System of cultivation Guyot
Soil type grey-blue clayey marl
Vinification
In the most favourable and dry vintage years part of the grapes are left in the vinyards until November, on the trimmed branch. The grapes are then picked and collected in a case for further withering. At the end of the year they are softly pressed.
After a long fermentation period, that stops naturally once it gets to 14°, the wine is left ripening for 14 months, partly in barriques and partly in steel barrels so to obtain the right balance.
The wine keeps evolving for at least six more months in the bottle.
Alcohol 14% vol.
Total Acidity 85 gr/lt
Bottle size 750 ml. Bordolese
Bottle cap natural cork
References
Guida Vini d’Italia
Gambero Rosso, 2008 - One glass
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