{"product_id":"vitovska-2010-paolo-vodopivec-friuli-venezia-giulia-italy-natural-wine","title":"Vitovska 2010","description":"\u003cp\u003eVodopivec's Vitovska 2010 is a skin-contact wine from the Carso sub-region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, grown on a limestone plateau at 260 meters elevation near Trieste, on the border with Slovenia. The vineyards sit on rocky limestone soils high in iron and magnesium, farmed organically and biodynamically without irrigation, synthetic chemicals, herbicides, or pesticides. The 2010 vintage was the only wine produced that year and the first wine made in Vodopivec's new cellar, with grapes harvested on September 22nd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVitovska is a rare indigenous cross of Prosecco Tondo (Glera) and Malvasia Bianca Lunga, cultivated across roughly 60 hectares total in Italy and Slovenia. Of that, Vodopivec farms 6 hectares exclusively to this variety. The grape's thick skins make it well suited to extended maceration. Destemmed and pressed with a manual basket press, it ferments on the skins for six months in buried Georgian clay amphorae with no temperature control and no added yeasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter skin contact, the wine is basket pressed into large 30-hectoliter Slavonian oak barrels for 24 months, with decanting as needed. It is bottled without fining, filtration, or physicochemical stabilizers. The result is a medium amber wine, transparent with a touch of haze, showing dried apricot, orange zest, honeysuckle, saline mineral, and fine tannins from the prolonged maceration. Production reaches a maximum of around 12,000 bottles across the entire estate in any vintage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vodopivec","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12931194552375,"sku":"VODOVITO10H","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/vodopivec-vitovska.jpg?v=1568502641","url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/products\/vitovska-2010-paolo-vodopivec-friuli-venezia-giulia-italy-natural-wine","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}