1 BOTTLE X 75cl 

14,5% VOL. 

The Romagna is the realm of Sangiovese and the wines of Romagna are nowadays internationally acclaimed. The outstanding ones are the fruits of those families whose main pride is the commitment to the highest quality. The sloping soils around Predappio are clayey and very dry, ideally suited to the Sangiovese grape. The wines are vigorous, weighty, smooth and quite suitable for refining. They perfectly match local food (cappelletti or tortellini filled with herbs, piadina with porchetta or mushrooms and game. Yet they suitably complement a wide variety of food styles also outside our region when the pairing requires a first-rate red wine (DOC Superiore, DOC Riserva).

Sangiovese (small berry) matured for two years in 30 hl. oak casks, followed by a three month refining in the bottle. Ruby red colour with garnet hints; on the nose it is very delicate with an evident spicy note of deep and pleasant graphite, coffee and chocolate, together with elegant and fine flowery tones of cherries, violet, underbrush and pomegranate. On the palate the wine is thin yet powerful, elegant, balanced and well backed by the right tannins;  the finish is dry and very long, always austere.

It matches red meat, wild fowl, game.

The Sangiovese Riserva “VIGNA DEL GENERALE” comes from the oldest vineyard, aged about 90 years. The name and the label derive from an old story: at Predappio lived a general who was a wine lover; coming back from war one day he decided to buy the best piece of land and to plant Sangiovese vines, a particular kind of Sangiovese with peculiar small grapes, which proved to be able to give very long- lasting wines: 10, 15 or 20 years. The general had a rather special friend who used to wander through the vineyards: a wolf! And a wolf greedy for grapes, which often spattered his grey coat. This is the story still handed on in the village.

It is a wine produced in limited quantity and saved for connoisseurs; it is full-bodied and developed, mineral and complex both on the nose and on the palate; odd in its first years of life but softening with age.