Description
Friuli Isonzo Chardonnay Jurosa 2015 Lis Neris
Variety: Chardonnay 100%
Straw yellow color tending to gold.
The nose is intense, admirably complex and fine. We can smell the scents of broom flowers, mimosa and the most delicate robinia. Spices come, like vanilla, pine resin, and soft notes of powder. Even the aromatic herbs and the scents of the Mediterranean scrub are part of the olfactory perspective.
On the palate it is firmly fixed within the rigid structure given by hardness, yet the texture of softness shows us a truly valuable volume and thickness of the sip. After swallowing come the aromatic herbs, the yellow peach and the pineapple. Very persistent.
Elegant and complex, it stands out for its class in the great sea of world chardonnay.
He does not fear comparisons.
Friuli Isonzo Chardonnay Jurosa 2015 Lis Neris
The vineyards are located in the municipality of San Lorenzo Isontino, at an average altitude of 60 meters above sea level.
Soil: it’s clayey with gravelly and calcareous residues, and the average age of the vines is 25 years.
Plant density: it’s 5200 plants per hectare. The training system is espalier with guyot pruning.
Alcoholic fermentation takes place in 500 liter French oak barrels at a controlled temperature of 22-24 ° C.
The refinement takes place in the same fermentation containers for 11 months. Having left the fermentation residues of yeasts in the wine, frequent bâtonnage is carried out.
After bottling it matures in the company cellars for another 12 months.
Lis Neris is a family company, admirably managed by Alvaro Pecorari.
Wines are produced exclusively with grapes coming from the vineyards of the property and from some vines grown directly in the Slovenian territory. In the vineyard the fight against pests is conducted with biological systems, and the vast majority of operations are carried out manually.
The company can boast a control of carbon dioxide emissions, and in terms of energy it uses solar energy captured and transformed by its own photovoltaic systems, making it completely self-sufficient.
