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Foto: ornellaia.comOrnellaia extends between Bolgheri and the coast, in a landscape shaped by the relationship between land and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Sea, wind, sun and deep soils combine to form the estate’s microclimates, while Mediterranean scrub and forest surround and separate the vineyards.
The Langhe vineyards occupy soils of marine sedimentary origin. Alternating calcareous clay, grey-blue marl, limestone and sand create small but consequential differences between geographical mentions.
Veneto forms the geographical and cultural centre of Botter’s identity. The region is presented as a place where wine customs, local heritage and the land are closely connected.
Tenuta delle Terre Nere is based on Etna’s northern slope, in the hilly belt between Solicchiata and Randazzo.
Foto: gianfrancofino.itThe vineyards lie in the Manduria and Sava countryside of Puglia, within reach of the Ionian Sea. The terrain is predominantly flat. Red soils combine limestone and clay, while the vines are exposed to the warm Apulian sun and breezes arriving from the Ionian coast.
Foto: sanleonardo.itTenuta San Leonardo lies in Vallagarina, at the southern end of Trentino-Alto Adige in the Province of Trento. The 300-ha property occupies the left bank of the Adige and follows the perimeter of the historic feudal estate.
Foto: schiopetto.itSchiopetto’s vineyards are distributed among four named areas: Capriva, Zegla, Pradis and Oleis. Capriva is the historical centre of the estate; Zegla and Pradis are in the Cormons area, while Podere dei Blumeri is associated with the Colli Orientali del Friuli.
Foto: mastroberardino.comIrpinia corresponds to the province of Avellino and is crossed by the Partenio and Terminio mountain chains. Their presence creates substantial pedoclimatic variation among the family's sites.
Vinicola Decordi began in 1921 as a tavern run by the Decordi family. It served the food and wines of the lower Po Valley, and founder Quirico Decordi senior made several barrels of local red wine, including Fortana, Ancellotta and Lambrusco.
The grape of Chianti, and the heart of the blend there — in some zones as much as seven parts in ten. Buds break in the first half of April and the fruit hangs late, ripening from the last week of September into October.
Vigorous, generous and reliable, colouring through the second half of August. The bunches are medium and winged, the berries round and blue-black beneath a thick bloom. It shrugs off rot better than most, though the bunches want watching for downy mildew.
Tutti i vini di Merlot →Grown for wine alone, still and sparkling alike, and more often bottled on its own than blended away into something else. In Franciacorta, taken through a second fermentation in the bottle, it gives a straw-gold wine, fine and complex in scent, fresh and savoury to taste.
Tutti i vini di Chardonnay →The first of the Piedmont grapes to wake, ten days or so ahead of Barbera, and among the last to be picked. It crops unevenly: a kind spring brings a full year, a cold or wet one a thin harvest.
A late starter: the buds break at the end of April and flowering waits for June. Yields are moderate but steady, on small cylindrical bunches — often with one pronounced wing — of thick-skinned, deep blue-black berries. Powdery mildew is its weakness.
Tutti i vini di Cabernet Sauvignon →Late to bud, and thick-skinned enough to dry well — the bunches keep both on the vine and on the drying racks. They are long and cylindrical, often carrying a wing so large that growers call such a bunch a double.
Tutti i vini di Corvina →
