Festa Norìa

The vines are located in the lower Sulcis, trained both as Alberello and on trellises, on calcareous, clay-rich and sandy soils. The grapes are picked by hand from the end of September to the end of October in several passes; a natural ripening and shrivelling process on the vine concentrates the grapes. After traditional red-wine vinification, fermentation is stopped by cooling at around two-thirds of the sugar conversion, and grape spirit is added. The wine is matured for several years in oak barriques. Sweet, warm and full-bodied, it displays balsamic notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, myrtle and juniper and finishes long. The alcohol content is approximately 17 percent.