Terre Silvate, says Corrado Dottori, is the wine that represents La Distesa like no other. A lively, purist and animating Verdicchio that is much more than just a basic wine.
It comes from vineyards in three different communes in the old Verdicchio metropolis of Castelli di Jesi. None of them is...
"Nur" means light - in Arabic.
Corrado Dottori from La Distesa had a decidedly Mediterranean wine in mind when he conceived Nur. A wine with roots that go back a long way, without added sulphites.
The vineyards for this are located in San Michele, the Grand Cru of Cupramontana. The subsoil is ba...
Corrado Dottori (La Distesa) says: "An old vineyard. The salt and light of San Michele. A long dialogue with the air. The passing of time. This is the Gli Eremi."
You could leave it at these words.
However, a few additional explanatory words wouldn't hurt. San Michele is the part of Cupramontana...
A rosé in response to social conditions and political scaremongering. "At a time when concepts of purity, origin and identity are constantly being conjured up, we wanted to blend and unite the skins of our different grape varieties." Corrado Dottori sets an example. At the same time, however, he ...
Cupramontana is white wine country. At 500 metres above sea level and in the shadow of Apennine peaks up to 1500 metres high, this is hardly surprising. And yet in the capital of Marchegian wine, there is a tradition of giving a voice to short-macerated and fresh red wines alongside weighty white...