“San Giovenale” Rosso Lazio VdT s.a.

San Giovenale | Latium
San Giovenale Agr. srl | Via Giuseppe Zanardelli 34 | IT 00186 Roma

10072600 · 0,75 l · 78,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

Some wine projects are born out of calculation. This one was born out of one of those happy collisions between man and landscape that cannot be planned. Emanuele Pangrazi, a Roman and entrepreneur, travelled through the Tuscia hills north of Rome in 2006 and stayed. He bought land in Blera, a place whose name few people recognise, but whose history goes back to the Etruscans – the advanced civilisation that carved its necropolises into the tufa here. The winery is named San Giovenale after a nearby Etruscan ruined city. What fascinated him about this part of Lazio was the climatic tension: 300 to 400 metres above sea level, clay-rich soils with stone inclusions, dry winds from the nearby Tyrrhenian Sea. Not a location for Sangiovese, as the soils quickly made clear. But for the varieties of the southern Rhône – grenache, Syrah, Carignan, Tempranillo. Grown as Alberello with 11,000 vines per hectare. The vines fight, compete, plunge deep into the clay. Yield: 25 quintals per hectare.

Rosso San Giovenale is a blend of two vintages of Habemus – a wine that makes the signature of the winery clearly legible without laying all the cards on the table: deep ruby red; wild berries, plum confit, lavender and a hint of Mediterranean scrub on the nose; warm and present on the palate, with a salty-mineral line that breaks up the fullness and prolongs the finish. A convincing prelude to a conversation that is not yet over. SUPERIORE.DE