Phylika

The soil has sandy-clay texture. Raising method is Guyot, 50 cm up from the ground. Vineyard density is 6700 plants/ha. Average age of the wines: 10 years . Production 90 quintals per hectare, 1.2 Kg per plant. Vineyard area is 6 hectares, with 1,5 reservee for Vermentino. The harvest is manual and the grapes are stores in barrels of steel, with dry ice system of refrigeration. Alcoholic fermentation is done stainless steel tanks with capacity between 20 and 30 hl, with control of temperatures. Evolution follows for three months on the lees, then Bottling is done in January. Refinement takes about one month and it's made in glasses. Phylika the loving, delightful, lovable, well disposed. A fragment of a black-painted pottery was found on the acropolis of Populonia and it retains a graffiti with the name of a Greek slave. Phylika had put it in the cup flowers, fruits and perfumes, as offer to the divinity she was devoted. Her name refers to Venus and the sacred commitment that the slaves practiced in the Mediterranean sanctuaries sacres to Aphrodite.