Strong, intensive ruby red, elegant, fruit-driven and spicy notes of bitterchocolate, tobacco and pepper, ripe Amarena cherries; elegant and fresh with well blended, gentle tannins, salty and succulent with a gentle acidity and velvety-elegant finish.

With braised and grilled meats and venison, as well as with tasty-ripened cheese.

climate

The vines grow at between 270 and 550 meters above sea-level where – with more than 2,100 annual hours of sunshine and cool nights – they find optimum conditions for producing fully mature grapes.

soil

Eroded quartz-bearing porphyry soils in Settequerce and calcareous clay soils at Appiano Monte.

vinification

Controlled fermentation in steel vats, they spend between 14 and 18 months aging in barriques and oak barrels and another ten months maturing in bottles.