LA DISTESA
Nocenzio 2024
Marche, Italy
A blend of roughly equal parts of Sangiovese and Montepulciano from vineyards planted over clay and limestone in the hills outside Cupramontana. The Sangiovese fermented on the skins for a week with a percentage of whole bunches, before being blended with a direct press of Montepluciano. The two varieties rested in vats for a year and a cooler vintage has produced a light, bright and pure wine awash with red cherry and bitter herbs.
Sangiovese, Montepulciano
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Corrado Dottori’s family has tended vines in San Michele near the town of Cupramontana in the Marche for three generations.
The rolling hills at around three hundred metres above sea level, firm clay-limestone soils and that all-important fluctuation between temperatures day and night found here provide the perfect conditions for growing the region’s fascinating local grapes.
Across the seven hectares of vineyards, biodiversity is both championed and cherished, you’ll find fava beans, peas, alfalfa, wild mint and more in between the rows of vines, providing diverse surroundings in which the plants thrive. The focus on attaining pure, characterful fruit through organic viticulture and low yields.
As you would expect from such an earnest grower, the approach in the cantina is honest to say the least and Corrado’s pure, nourishing wines are our favourites in the region and amongst Italy’s very best.