THE WINE:

A pale salmon-pink color with light coppery reflections, bright with a creamy and extremely fine perlage. The aroma is intense and captivating, featuring notes of rose, linden, and wisteria. The olfactory profile expands with nectarine peach, Cantaloupe melon, wild strawberries, raspberry, mandarin, kumquat, and pink grapefruit. Flavorful, intense, and silky, it has a great balance with a fruity acidity that enhances and refines the taste with citrusy and marasca cherry notes, consistent in mouth aromas with its bouquet.

WINEMAKING:

Manual harvesting and careful grape selection. Soft whole-cluster pressing. Alcoholic fermentation in small stainless steel tanks. Cold clarification after fermentation is complete. Aged sur lies (on fine lees) for 90 days. Secondary fermentation in autoclave. Aged for 6 months on its own yeasts. Isobaric filtration and bottling.

Production area: Montepulciano (Si)
Field blend: 80% Sangiovese, 20% Chardonnay – Grechetto – Verdello
Altitude: 288 mt
Terroir: gravel-clay
Year of planting: 1998
Grape harvest period: 4th week of August – 1st week of September
Chopping strands density/ha: 6.250 vines/ha
Vine training system: Spur cordon and Guyot
Yield/chopping strand: 1,00 kg
First harvest: 2018 Refinement: 6 month on its own yeasts
Residues on sugar: 6 g/l
Total acidity: 6.0 g/l
Alchool content: 12%
Serving temperature: 6–8 °C

FOOD PAIRINGS:

Raw seafood, fried dishes, risotto with scampi and shellfish.

AWARDS:

Decanter: 90 points
Wines Critic (Raffaele Vecchioni): 90 points
Seminario Veronelli (Gigi Brozzoni): 87 points
Annuario dei Migliori Vini Italiani (Luca Maroni): 92 points