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Wine name
Antinori Casasole
Wine remark
Heavy rain in autumn 2003 enabled the soil layers to restabilize after the testing summer drought. The winter was cold and rainy with repeated fairly heavy snowfall. Thanks to the weather conditions, budbreak was delayed by 10-15 days even for more precocious varieties. During flowering and fruit-set, the weather was remarkably wet and cool (the lowest temperatures in the last 3-4 years). The vegetation developed well although with consistent delay through to veraison and ripening of the grapes. Intense pre-harvest selection was necessary because the weather conditions caused over-production. Lastly, the harvest began a couple of weeks later than average, when the grapes were perfectly healthy and ripe and showed a perfect balance of quantity and quality.

On harvesting, the grapes were destemmed and after a soft pressing, the must was immediately cooled down to 10°C in order to enduce its natural clarification. The juice was then racked, and introduced into temperature controlled stainless steel tanks where alcoholic fermentation started to take place at a temperature which did not exceed 18°C. When a certain quantity of residual sugar was still to be found in the wine, the alcoholic fermentation was arrested by suddenly lowering the temperature to 0°C. The wine with sugar residual was filtered and stored for a brief period at a low temperature until bottling. Alcohol: 10.50% vol. + 1.8% vol.

Antinori has produced an Orvieto since 1922 and an Orvieto Classico since 1932. The Orvieto Classico 'Amabile' (semi-sweet) was the original style of Orvieto which was produced and enjoyed in the past. With the 1998 vintage the wine was given the name 'Casasole' which is in fact the name of a farmhouse to be found on the estate of Castello della Sala near Orvieto.

The wine is nicely fruity and well-balanced with a subtly sweetish finish.
Country Italy
Region Umbria
Producer Antinori
Volume 0.75 L
Color White
Type Dry
Ranking DOC
Alcohol 10.5%
Barrel aging
Grape variety
Procanico 60%
Grechetto 20%
Verdello 15%
Malvasia 2.5%
Drupeggio 2.5%
Years
2004
2003
2002
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