Cesanese del Piglio/Piglio
Detto anche Piglio
In the province of Frosinone, south-east of Rome, the upper valley of the Sacco climbs into the Monti Ernici, and on their slopes the communes of Piglio and Serrone, with parts of Acuto, Anagni and Paliano, grow Cesanese, a native red grape of Lazio. The zone covers about 15,300 hectares of high and middle hills, with vineyards anywhere between 220 and 980 metres, facing mostly west and south-west. Continua a leggere ↓
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Cesanese del Piglio in breve
The soils are terre rosse, red earths washed down from the limestone mountains by glaciers and rain and left behind as the lime dissolved. Iron and aluminium oxides colour them dark red; most are heavy silty clays, a few looser and full of limestone scree. The climate is a transitional temperate one, with 1,100 to 1,230 mm of rain, one or two dry summer months, an average of 13.5 to 15.6 °C and long but not severe winters.
Cesanese del Piglio — or simply Piglio — must be at least 90 per cent Cesanese di Affile or Cesanese Comune. It is made as a red and a Superiore, and a Superiore aged at least 20 months, six of them in bottle, with at least 14 per cent alcohol may be called Riserva. The wine became a DOC in 1973 and a DOCG in 2008.