Rosso Piceno Doc Superiore
FIRST VINTAGE BOTTLED 1986.
PRODUCTION AREA winery’s own vineyards located in the municipalities of Offida and Ascoli Piceno.
GRAPE BLEND Montepulciano 70%, Sangiovese 30%
AVERAGE ALTITUDE 200-300 meters above-sea-level.
SOIL TYPE Mainly clay, tending to limestone.
TRELLISING SYSTEM Guyot.
DENSITY PER HECTARE 5.000 plants per hectare.
YIELD PER HECTARE 110 quintals of grapes approximately.
YIELD PER GRAPE-VINE 2 Kg of grapes approximately.
HARVEST Grapes are handpicked in mid-October, early in the morning or late in the afternoon, and placed in small trays kept in cold cells before being taken to the winery.
FERMENTATION Once destemmed, grapes are conveyed into 200Hl steel vats with a pump over and temperature control system. Maceration on the skins lasts for about twenty days. After fermentation, the wine is channelled into second-fill barriques, where wines for the production of Roggio and Ludi had been kept the previous year.