ORO DI CAIAROSSA  Late harvest – Sweet Wine

Origin - Riparbella (Pisa) / Toscana

Yields - 9.050 vines per hectare, 30 hectoliters per hectare

Harvest - Late harvest, after natural shriveling in the vineyard  (beginning of  November 2007) . By hand.

Selection of Grapes - In the vineyard during harvest

Cultivation  -  Biodynamic; without the use of herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. Low dosage of copper (25% of the authorised amount REG CEE 209/91), and sulphur. Herbal infusions; nettle, willow, chamomile and horsetail.  Limited fertilization with biodynamic preparations (500 and 501, as recommended by Steiner), intense work of the soil, using super-light tractors.

Vinification 
Immediate and long pressing of the whole bunches.
Alcoholic fermentation: in new barrels during 1 year (indigenous yeast only) 
Residual sugar : 120 g/L.

AgeingIn the same barrels for a total of 14 months

Alcohol13 % 

Production1.260 bottles of 0.5 Lt.