Umbrian DOC

ASSISI DOC

The area of ​​Assisi is the production area of ​​the province that has most recently been recognized DOC. The DOC Assisi is named after the most representative city to the region where it is produced: the city of St. Francis, known worldwide for its frescoes by Giotto. The wines belonging to this DOC derive from vineyards located in soils favorably exposed, in the hills between 180 and 550 meters above sea level, in a part of the territory of the towns of Assisi, Spello and Perugia. The DOC Assisi is produced by a small number of companies that still have good results on the market for interesting quality wine, produced in the white, red, pink, new and grechetto. The Assisi Rosso DOC is ideal for the game and for more structured dishes. Serve with ballon chalices at 18-20 ° C. Novello can be used to any extent, but marries particularly well with cheese, sausage and chestnuts. The Rosato goes well with light dishes, such as soups or pasta with vegetables, and should be served in large glasses and open to 12-14 ° C, while White is excellent with fish dishes and served in the chalice flared 10-12 ° C. For some years the municipalities in this area have been the wine road of the Song

HILLS ALTOTIBERINI DOC

The DOC Colli Altotiberini take their name from the hills crossed by the Tiber, in the municipalities of Citerna, Città di Castello, Gubbio, Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, Perugia, San Giustino and Umbertide. The winemaking traditions of the area date back to the Romans (the vines are mentioned with admiration by Pliny the Elder), and even before the Etruscans. Andrea Bacci, in the sixteenth century, describes the area: “on the two sides of the Tiber widen festive fields and rich pastures, from which rise the gentle hills, covered in part by long rows of olive trees and partly of manicured vineyards.” The wine is currently produced in the white, red and rosé. The Bianco is served with delicate fish dishes, pasta with sauce of fresh water fish, fried lake fish and is served at 10-12C in a goblet flared.The Red is associated with fresh cold cuts, pasta with tomato sauce, grilled or roasted white meat, poultry, fresh cow’s milk cheeses and should be served in a glass stretched to 16-18 C. The Rosato is associated with tasty appetizers, risotto with herbs, spicy soups of lake fish, barbecued eel, omelettes peasant and tasted in large glasses and open to 12-14C.

HILLS MARTANI DOC

The territories on the left of the Tiber are rich with evidence of the attivita ‘wine held in the area by the Etruscans and then by the Romans (as evidenced by Martial and Pliny the Elder). This area, which includes a large area in the North-East and South-West of the ridge of the Colli Martani, is growing rapidly and is characterized by quality wines from good attitude to the long aging. A recent amendment of the product specifications of the wines Colli Martani provided that the designation is reserved for the following categories: Red, also Reserve Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon Riserva, also Reserve Merlot, White Trebbiano, Grechetto, Grechetto of Todi, Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Riesling and sparkling.The production, unlike in neighboring areas, focuses on single-variety. The Colli Martani Grechetto D.O.C. It goes well with simple dishes: appetizers of shellfish, fish and seafood, pasta dishes with light fish sauces, fine fish roasted sea dressed with extra virgin olive oil. Serve at 10-12 ° C, in a glass for young white wines and consumed within two years of the vintage. Colli Martani Sangiovese, instead, is ideal in combination with red meat, especially if cooked on the grill and we recommend the tasting to a serving temperature of 18 ° C in elongated chalices for young wines and in ballon chalices for aged wines.

HILLS OF TRASIMENO DOC

Even in the area of ​​the Colli del Trasimeno vine cultivation it is ancient, facilitated by the sweet lake climate and hillsides that favor exposure to sunlight vine: a test of how the diversity of micro-climate favors the production of different types of wine. Recently, several companies have undertaken to produce wines more structured and long-lived. Improving the quality and expanding the range have been included in the new production regulations which introduced new types of wine Colli del Trasimeno, four white wines (Dry, White chose, FrizzanteLe traditions and Vin Santo), five reds (Red, chose red, Rosso Riserva, Frizzante and Novello), a sparkling wine Classic, and then single grape variety (Grechetto, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Gamay, Merlot Reserve, Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and Gamay Reserve). The municipalities involved are Castiglione del Lago, Citta della Pieve Corciano, Magione, Paciano, Panicale, Passignano, Perugia, Piegaro and Tuoro sul Trasimeno. Colli del Trasimeno DOC Rosso, one of the most popular vinidella name, is ideal for preparations piuttostostrutturate: traditional cold cuts, pasta with meat sauce, roast pork, poultry cooked cacciatore, medium-aged cheeses. Serve at 16-18 ° C, in a glass for wine structured and consumed within two or three years from vintage. The dry white can instead be paired with hors d’oeuvres, soups, fish with light sauces, lake fish roasted or grilled fish fillets with butter and sage and served in a goblet flared at 10-12 ° C. In sparkling wine should be served in flutes at 8 ° C.

TERRE DEL SAGRANTINO DOCG

Claims to have almost a thousand years, some say even more, yet the Sagrantino di Montefalco wine is rather young, with a history largely written. Of course, the lives in this land was cultivated by the Romans, the usual Pliny the Elder tells of a grape called Itriola, while the Sagrantino seems to come with the Franciscan friars return from Asia Minor. The cards then leave no doubt, that of making wine was serious business in these shores, respected and protected, so that in 1540 the harvest date was established by a specific city ordinance, and the “Show regional wines and oils” of 1925 It held its own in Montefalco, defined even then “the most important wine center of Umbria”. All right. But if it is true that the tradition of making wine has its roots in history, as well as the screws of Sagrantino do with them, from the hills into the very walls of the city, where very old plants adorn the entrances of houses, villas and palaces, it is worth remembering how the contemporary perspective of this vine and its wine has changed dramatically in recent years.

From sweet nectar, still produced and protected by DOCG, a great dry wine, capable of emitting power, complexity and elegance, as well as a polyphenolic extraordinary that gives color, texture and great aging potential. The feeling, in short, is that the best is yet to come, and that this portentous red is intended for a stable place among the greats of Italian and world. Son of an area, the so-called road of Sagrantino that in addition to Montefalco, includes part of the territories of Bevagna, Gualdo Cattaneo, Giano and Castel Ritaldi, DOCG since 1992, is a vine and a wine that seems to become one with its territory reference, benefiting as nowhere else in the world of the spectacular mosaic formed by its climate and its soil.