About this wine
Vineyard and terroir
Sangiovese is grown on clay soils at approximately 365–410 metres above sea level, with a south-southeast exposure. Planting density is approximately 5,436 vines per hectare, and the vines are Guyot trained.
Grapes
100% Sangiovese. The wine is a vintage Brut Nature made only in selected years and in limited quantities.
Vinification
The grapes are picked in early September, when acidity remains high and sugar levels are still low. Selection focuses on the free-run juice: in the first production trial in 2009, pressing 100 tonnes of Sangiovese yielded 10 tonnes of free-run juice.
Technical data
Brut Nature, made without dosage.
Vintage notes
The 2020 season began with a relatively warm winter and spring, prompting early budding and flowering. Temperatures fell during the first three weeks of June, then rose and remained high through summer without prolonged extreme peaks. Winter was particularly dry, while May and the first half of June brought abundant rain. Summer was generally hot and dry, with only moderate water stress, before rainfall returned in late August and continued during harvest.
Harvest began approximately one week earlier than had been customary in preceding years. The grapes were healthy, with thick skins and ripe seeds. The resulting wines showed bright colour and good acidity without excessive alcohol; compared with preceding vintages, they were less concentrated but more elegant.
Label / history
The sparkling wine was conceived as a distilled expression of Sangiovese, built around stringent selection of its free-run juice.
