Italian Red Wines

With the location of La Querciola (small oak), everything started on Massa Vecchia, everything from Francesca Sfondrini, who has long since rose to cult status. Located in the Colline Metallifere striking shadow in the Alta Maremma, her parents, Fabrizio Niccolaini and Patrizia Bartolini, there i...

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data sheet Grape variety: Sangiovese, Malvasia Nera, Alicante Vineyard: reading: by hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeast expansion: in the large wooden barrel Filtration: no SO₂:  Alcohol content: 13,5% Closure: Natural corks Drinking temperature: 16 ° Perfect drinking maturi...

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Carlo Venturini and Alessandra Zantadeschi from Monte dall'Ora cover the entire spectrum of wine styles in Valpolicella. This also includes a simple table wine, a wine for every day, in short a classic Valpolicella. It does not usually have an easy standing in the region and is often regarded as ...

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Camporenzo has been one of our favourite wines from Valpolicella for many years. It comes from the chalky vineyard of the same name above San Pietro in Cariano. Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella, the three most important grape varieties in the region, are cultivated in the classic pergola verone...

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The grapes for the Ripasso Saustò grow on the ridge of a hill above Castelrotto that stretches from south to east. The soils here are limestone-dominated and the grape varieties are typical of the area: Corvina sets the tone, complemented by Corvinone, Rondinella, Molinara and Oseleta. The harves...

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Silvio Messana once said that his Chianti Classico 2011 represented a personal reference point for his involvement with the great wine style of the region. He recognised in it what he had always associated with a Chianti Classico - elegance, balance, slenderness, length, verticality and delicate ...

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Silvio Messana planted the variety in his vineyards at the beginning of his winemaking career and at the height of the Cabernet boom (in addition to an existing variety that his father had planted). He wanted to use it to spice up his Chianti, but quickly realised that it would undermine his own ...

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The Donesco was once called "Il Secondo" and was the red entry wine into the world of Pacina. The only major difference between Pacina, the estate's classic, and Il Secondo was the fact that the vines for the latter were only planted in 2005 and 2008 respectively, whereas the vines for Pacina hav...

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Pacina's "Pacina" has all the attributes of a big Chianti: it consists of 95% of Sangiovese and 5% of Ciliegiolo and Canaiolo, grows on Tufo di Siena, the classic substrate of the southern part of the region and will be in wooden bottles of different sizes over 14 months (500-2500 l) and then exp...

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Data sheet Grape variety: 12 different grape varieties from very old vines Vineyard: Vineyard in Castelvetro di Modena Harvest: by hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts + natural secondary fermentation in the bottle Ageing: First in ceramic, then in the bottle  Filtration: no SO₂: < 25m...

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The Laurenc is the answer to the Caroline, the brother to the sister. In terms of grape varieties, Laurenc is quite simply Lagrein. However, nothing is really simple with Lagrein. Especially not in the vineyard, where it produces very irregular yields due to recurring fertility problems. This is ...

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A Chianti Classico with character. This is due without exception to the Sangiovese. Riccardo and Massimiliano Lanza have given the Merlot, which once accompanied it, its own bottling, so that the great red grape variety of Tuscany has its own special place.  Grown on a limestone-rich south-easte...

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The démodé is- unlike the name suggests- an experiment that Massimiliano Lanza von Pruneto believes that it is currently even closer to the beginning than at the end point. This may be so and lets a lot expect for the future, but you can already state that the start has been successful.  The exp...

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Data sheet Grape variety: 100% Sangiovese Cultivation method: organic Vineyard: Limestone & clay soils, old vines Harvest: by hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts in cement Ageing: 24 months in large wooden barrels  Filtration: no SO₂: < 50 mg/l Alcohol content: 13.5% vol. Closure...

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Everybody is forgiven who has never heard of the Pascale grape variety - also we only knew about it from hearsay. But then Eugenio Bocchino and Cinzia Pelazza decided to add a few hectares of vineyards in Gallura, Sardinia, to their Barolo vineyard and make a red wine from Pascale in addition to ...

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