The producer, Nico Speranza, left the busy life in Verona to return to his Grandfather's farmhouse perched in the southern Fermana region of Le Marche. He works a few hectares of vines working within the flexibility of the IGT system and has developed wines that focus on complexity of aromas using traditional and innovative techniques.
This is a remarkably elegant blend of Petit Verdot and Montepulciano with complex notes of dark berry fruit and violets. With minimal oak, it is rounded with a long finish. Take a deep dive and breathe in!
MARCHE RED I.G.T. (Typical Geographical Indication): Petit Verdot 20% + Montepulciano 80% (dried for 20 days in the fruit cellar) HARVEST: The optimal ripening of the Petit Verdot around the first days of October and the Montepulciano at the end of it.A portion of Montepulciano is placed in small boxes for a period of one month to dry.The harvest took place exclusively in small 50 litre containers. CULTIVATION: Montepulciano are cordon spur trained with four spurs to a single bud (le bourillon: the closest to the crown and the least fertile).The Petit Verdot is ad Alberello/Goblet pruned with only two spurs with one bud each. PLANTING DENSITY: The rows are arranged at a distance between them of 2 meters while the vines are 1 meter apart giving a total of 5000 vines / hectare for the Montepulciano.The Petit Verdot and Marselan vines have 1.1 meters between the rows and 0.6 meters between the vines giving a total of 15. 000 vines / hectare. VINIFICATION/AGEING: When the grapes arrive in the cellar they are destemmed without undergoing any crushing (the grapes ferment whole) with an inoculation of selected yeasts without the use of sulfur.Fermentation takes place at a temperature of around 15 ° C (60 days to complete fermentation) with maceration of the skins until the end of the same.In March the wine is assembled.During two years of ageing partly in steel and partly in wood no sulfur additions are made.
