Description
Donnafugata, lovers of literature, created Sherazade out of the fictional novel “A Thousand and One Arabian Nights”. The King of Sultan, betrayed by love, becomes renown for beheading his wives on the first night of marriage and Sherazade, daughter of a city dweller, asks for her father’s permission to marry him, believing he has a good heart. Reluctantly, he agrees and so begins the tale. Each night, Sherazade starts but does not finish her incredible stories to the King and so, after a thousand and one nights, she is still in the palace and they are in love.
TERRAINS & CLIMATE:
altitude from 200 to 400 m a.m.s.l. (656- 1,312 ft); hilly orography; clay loam soils with a sub-alkaline reaction (pH 7.5 to 7.9) rich in nutritive elements (potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, zinc) and total limestone from 20 to 35%. Mild winters with little rainfall. Warm, dry, ventilated summers. Substantial differences between day and night-time temperatures.
VINEYARD:
VSP (Vertical Shoot Positioning) training with spurred cordon pruning g, leaving 6 to 10 buds per plant. Planting density of about 5,000 plants per hectare, with yields of 7.5 – 8.5 tons/ha (3.0 – 3.4 tons/acres).
