Centorame – Casoli di Atri (Teramo), Abruzzo, Italy
Lamberto Vannucci’s father purchased their 9 Ha in the Colline Teramane area in 1987, but it wasn’t until 2002, when Lamberto was just 24 years old, that the family turned over management to Lamberto and the first vintage was produced – previously selling off grapes to other bottlers. They have come a long way in a short time, now producing wines that could be called benchmarks for their appellation. Their vineyards – less than 5km from the Adriatic Sea and averaging about 200m in altitude, are managed as sustainably as possible, using no fertilizers of any sort and seldom using any chemical treatments – only when absolutely necessary and nothing systemic. Two concepts near and dear to our hearts – protection of the sense of “terroir” and the preservation of indigenous varietals – are central to Lamberto’s philosophy. A manual green harvest is performed each summer to achieve the optimum yields for each varietal, all fruit is picked by hand into small boxes and is vinified immediately using soft pressing techniques and using controlled temperature. Colline Teramane is one of Italy’s newest DOCGs, born in 2003 – named for the town of Teramo. It requires certain vine densities of Montepulciano, low yields, and of course provenance in the delimited zone of the DOCG. It also requires two years of elaboration, at least one of which is in barrel of oak or chestnut.
Lamberto Vannucci’s father purchased their 9 Ha in the Colline Teramane area in 1987, but it wasn’t until 2002, when Lamberto was just 24 years old, that the family turned over management to Lamberto and the first vintage was produced – previously selling off grapes to other bottlers. They have come a long way in a short time, now producing wines that could be called benchmarks for their appellation. Their vineyards – less than 5km from the Adriatic Sea and averaging about 200m in altitude, are managed as sustainably as possible, using no fertilizers of any sort and seldom using any chemical treatments – only when absolutely necessary and nothing systemic. Two concepts near and dear to our hearts – protection of the sense of “terroir” and the preservation of indigenous varietals – are central to Lamberto’s philosophy. A manual green harvest is performed each summer to achieve the optimum yields for each varietal, all fruit is picked by hand into small boxes and is vinified immediately using soft pressing techniques and using controlled temperature. Colline Teramane is one of Italy’s newest DOCGs, born in 2003 – named for the town of Teramo. It requires certain vine densities of Montepulciano, low yields, and of course provenance in the delimited zone of the DOCG. It also requires two years of elaboration, at least one of which is in barrel of oak or chestnut.
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