Vigna Spungone
At 250 metres, in the heart of the Conca d’Oro. The soil is spungone: a warm, sponge-like rock of fossil shells, a cliff left behind by a vanished sea. It gives deep savouriness and tension. Planted in 1970.
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Every vineyard has a name. Every name, a voice.
Fifty-three hectares on the first step of the Romagna Apennines, between Forlì and Cesena. In 1973 Mario Pezzi and Luigi Veronelli recognised ten crus on the estate: Lepri, Molino, Viale, Olivo, Spungone, Dosso, Rotonda, Pavone, Quercia, Giardino. Each vineyard is divided into parcels according to its soil, and each parcel is farmed on its own. We do not impose a style: we wait for the land to speak.
Vigna Dosso
Higher up, at about 300 metres, the earth grows deeper: blue Pliocene clay, compact, holding water and giving strength and structure. This is where Mario Pezzi propagated the first Barbarossa vine, in 1954.
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Vigna delle Lepri
Planted in 1963 with Sangiovese Grosso, thanks to the friendship with Franco Biondi Santi; its vines are over sixty years old. From here, in 1970, came the first Sangiovese Riserva produced in Romagna. The soil: clay and limestone. Only the wine Vigna delle Lepri comes from here; its best vines, through massal selection, were used to replant Vigna Molino and the Sangiovese Grosso of Vigna Rotonda.
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Vigna Molino
Soils born of ancient seabeds; Roman remains have emerged from the ground. Twenty-seven Sangiovese biotypes, selected here, vine by vine. Replanted with a massal selection of the best vines of the historic Vigna delle Lepri: Vigna Molino and Orbite come from here.
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Vigna Olivo
Sun, wind, and the memory of Romagna’s sulphur. Here Albana ripens golden and concentrated.
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Vigna Viale
White nodules of limestone and morning mists: the microclimate that invites noble rot onto the Albana bunches.
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Vigna Rotonda
Dark layers of marl. Planted in 1970. Part of it is Bombino Bianco, for Tacco Arancio; part is Sangiovese Grosso, for Mito: only this part was replanted with a massal selection of the best vines of the historic Vigna delle Lepri.
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Vigna Giardino
Pale clays with gypsum crystals; planted in 1970.
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Vigna Quercia
Iron-rich earth with flashes of quartz: a soil that gives Albana tension and light.
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Vigna Pavone
Yellow sands. Here Hemera is born, the Albana of full daylight.
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