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About Winery and Wines
Having always been producers of the famous and renowned "Non Valley" apples, driven by an ongoing quest for ever greater sustainability in 2016 we began growing Solaris.
Solaris is not a well-known variety of white grape, but very interesting as it requires at most a couple of phytosanitary interventions per year as it is naturally very tolerant to downy mildew and powdery mildew.
The result of a selection made by the Freiburg Agricultural Institute in the mid-1970s, it has found in the plateau of Alta Valle di Non the ideal place to express the best of itself.
VenticinqueDieci was born in the heart of Alta Valle di Non, in the municipality of Romeno (TN) at about 980 m.s.l.m. The soil, calcareous-clayey and medium deep is characterized by a low percentage of skeletons, but the land's slope still ensures optimal water management. The first Solaris rootstocks on our farm were planted in the spring of 2016 with a planting density of more than 7000 plants/ha to limit the grape load per vine and maximize quality.
The Solaris variety is usually characterized by an extremely early ripening time but, given the altitude at which we grow it, ours usually does not reach optimum ripeness until the second decade of September.
The summer of 2020 was on average hot and rainy, in September, however, temperatures were well above average so ripening was slightly earlier than usual; we harvested on September 16. Harvesting is done strictly by hand and the grapes are transported in small plastic crates to preserve the integrity of the grapes as much as possible.
After soft pneumatic pressing of the destemmed grapes, the must was left overnight to decant before being racked and selected yeasts added. Fermentation, in stainless steel barrels, took place at a controlled temperature and lasted about 10 days. Once fermentation was finished, the wine was racked and remained until late spring to age, again in stainless steel barrels, before being filtered and bottled.