HASSAN PASSITO Cannonau di Sardegna DOC

Hassan, the handsome. Third King of Algiers in 1541. He was born and grew up a young shepherd boy on the mythical island of Asinara. Initially torn from his flock, he later won the favour of Kheie-ed-Dinn, known as Barbarossa. With unscrupulousness and goodness, he lived and died in Algiers.

Classification: Cannonau di Sardegna passito DOC. Grape variety: 100% Cannonau

Municipality of production: Sorso (SS).

Soil altitude: 70 m asl.

Soil type: Medium textured - sandy with discrete presence of skeleton.

Training system: Spurred Cordon.

Planting density: 5681 vines/ha. Yield per hectare: 50 quintals/ha at harvest, 20 quintals/ha after drying and 8 quintals/ha after ageing in wood.

Harvest: Manual, in the second ten days of August.

Vinification: Grape selection, soft destemming. Fermentation on the skins 20 days in steel at a temperature of 24°C. Ageing: In second-passage French oak barriques for at least 24 months and then in the bottle for over a year before release.

Colour: Garnet, clear, with a hint of orange.

Nose: A wine with a complex olfactory impact, ethereal with notes of plum, morello cherry, fruit preserved in alcohol and spices. Taste: Enveloping entrance, warm, with notes of sweet fruit immediately in evidence. The important alcohol base is tamed by the right acidity that gives freshness and pleasantness to the drink. Very long finish that leaves the palate pleasantly satisfied.

Total acidity: 5.5 gr/l

Dry extract: 32.5 gr/l

Residual sugar: 80 gr/l

Alcohol: 17 % vol.