Vigna Spungone
At 250 metres, in the heart of the Conca d’Oro. The soil is spungone: a porous, warm rock, a fossil cliff of shells 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 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 is red clay.
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Vigna Molino
Clays and marls born of limestone and gypsum rocks; Roman remains have emerged from the ground. Twenty-seven Sangiovese biotypes, selected here, vine by vine.
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Vigna Olivo
A sunny, breezy vineyard on the clays of Bertinoro, yielding golden, concentrated Albana grapes.
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Vigna Viale
Gypsum marls and morning mists: the microclimate that invites noble rot onto the Albana bunches.
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Vigna Rotonda
Calcareous gypsum soil. Planted in 1970.
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Vigna Giardino
A medium mix of sand and clay; planted in 1970.
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Vigna Quercia
Clay with quartz: a soil that gives Albana tension and light.
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Vigna Pavone
Mixed clays with pockets of tuff.
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