Taste notes
Langhe Favorita is a dry white wine, with a yellow colour with green highlights, typical of Piedmont. It features flower notes and a delicate flavour of dried fruit. In the mouth is balanced.
Thanks to its lightness the Favorita wine complime
nts all starters and pasta dishes that are not too heavy; its pairing with fish, pizza or white meat is fantastic. As a result of its freshness, combined with lightness and softness, this wine is also an excellent aperitif.
Favorita is the ideal wine when in company and it’s also a perfect “bar wine”. This is a great aperitif to have with friends at the bar. It is also excellent for any type of meal, especially for lunches or light dinners with fish. It is also exceptionally fitting for cooking white meats or, in general, grilled meats. This product should be served ideally at 5 – 6 ° C.
Historical notes
Favorita is a white wine of moderate alcohol content and light structure; a wine that did not exist in the past. Its vine, with long and large clusters of rather huge grapes, in fact, was used for the production of edible-grapes. The Favorita grape was not used for making wine, rather it was eaten as fruit. Later, with the advent of new clones and new cultivation and production techniques, some growers thought of trying to vinify it, thus obtaining a very good product. Today the Favorita wine is cultivated mainly in the Langa area and in part in the Roero area and is produced in limited quantities. Roughly 10,000 Ql are produced in an area of over 130 hectares, divided into 48 municipalities.
More information
Basic information
Product Name: Langhe Favorita DOC
Cépage: favorita
Appellation: Langhe Favorita
Classificaton: DOC
Color: white
Type: still
Country/Region: Piedmont
Vintage: 2022
Alcool percentage: 12% vol.
Residual sugar: about 2 g/l
Vinification (Wine-making)
Method: after a maceration of about 12 hours inside the press, the grapes are pressed at a pressure not exceeding 1.80 bar. This is followed by static decantation of the must and the ‘start of alcoholic fermentation, operated with specially selected yeasts at a controlled temperature. Throughout the duration of fermentation, the product is kept in agitation, by means of a stirrer, 2 times a day for 5 minutes, in order to keep the yeasts and “noble” lees in suspension, thus obtaining an increase in body.
Temperature: 14 – 15 °C for the duration of the process
Duration: 20 days
Malolactic: not carried out
Aging: 3 months in steel tank
Minimum time in bottle: 10 – 15 days after bottling
Bottle
Empty bottle weight: 400 g
Aging potential: 1,5 years
Cork size: 24×44
Cork material: cork
Bottle type: bordolese
Vineyard
% of Grape / Cépage: 100% favorita
Soil: medium mixture, with good clay and limestone endowment and a high magnesium richness
Exposure: south – east
Agricultural method: spontaneous grassing, with 2 mowings of ‘grass during the spring – summer season and one tillage (subsoiling with 3-tooth ripper) at a depth of 30 – 40 cm, carried out in autumn. Limited use of herbicides and fungicides.
Year of plantation: 1977
Harvest date: September
Type of harvest: by hand in boxes
Geolocalization: medium hills
Chemical Analysis
Total acidity: about 6 g/l (tartaric acid equivalent)