Ceppaiolo Ceppabianco 2020 Umbria
Ceppaiolo Ceppabianco 2020 UmbriaCeppaiolo Ceppabianco 2020
Field blend from 80year old vines – Malvasia, Trebbiano (Trubiano), San Colombano, Uva Pecora. Spontaneous fermentation with 10days skin contact. Aged in fiberglass. No added sulfur and no filtering or fining. Lots of skin contact happening here, dry tannins, baked peaches, citrus, black tea, honey and quince.
Perched off a quiet road in landlocked Umbria, lies this unpretentious winery home to large, mature vines and natural wines without any added sulphur or any other additives. Winemakers Danilo Marcucci and Riccardo Pennaforti fell for this two-hectare vineyard after discovering vines over seven decades in age growing on the land. This is not your typical heavily manicured Italian vineyard but a vestige of Umbria in the 1950s. Vintage winemaking equipment remains in service, grass grows freely, and a dilapidated Fiat is encircled by native flora. The winemakers keep the cellar exactly as they found it. Ceppaiolo takes its name from the Italian word for the poorest man in the village who would heat his home with unwanted tree roots while the best logs and branches went to the wealthiest. This makes this simple and unpretentious producer the real deal. Danilo refers to the vineyard as his “laboratory” for natural winemaking with the oldest vines still on the original rootstock and now more recently his “babies’ the new plantation of Trebbiano spoletino massal selection added to the vineyard. A spectrum of grape growing that produces a delicious fruit driven uniqueness to these wines.
Della Staffa Ciliegio 2018
Della Staffa Ciliegio 2018Danilo Marcucci, the ‘Yoda of natural wine’, has created a cherry bomb. The grape itself is named after the Italian for cherry, but Marcucci has really lived up to the name here. Easy acidity, light levels of spice, and juicy, fleshy red fruit
Vini Di Giovanni Rozzo Sangiovese 2020 Umbria
Vini Di Giovanni Rozzo Sangiovese 2020 UmbriaVini Di Giovanni Rozzo Sangiovese 2020
Giovanni is “Il pastore che fa il vino”, a third-generation shepherd who not only is “the shepherd who makes wine” but also delicious cheese and olive oil from ancient Umbrian trees protected by Unesco. Originally from the Barbagia, the Mountain region of Sardinia, he moved to Umbria as a young child where he grew up and married Cosetta. Several years ago planted 3 hectares of grapes to make all indigenous varietals other than staying true to his roots and also planting Vermentino to make his first and cult natural wine the “Vermentuzzo”. The sheep, trees and grapes are all farmed on organic soil in the elevated, rugged and mountainous central wine region of Umbria, Pianello.
At 300 metres above sea level, the organic soil is a mixture of marl coming from an ancient salt lake and limestone rock. Giovanni’s approach to winemaking is very ‘hands off’ and allows wild yeasts to ferment the wines, while using stainless tanks to preserve the purity of these wines. All wines are unfiltered and unfined with zero sulphites added even down to the labels that are made from the grass in winery, as Giovanni says “to capture the magical expression of the fruit and the earth”.
Vini Di Giovanni Vermentuzzo Vermentino 2020 Umbria
Vini Di Giovanni Vermentuzzo Vermentino 2020 UmbriaVini Di Giovanni Vermentuzzo Vermentino 2020
Skin contact wine with lashings of pineapple and citrus, some honey and white blossoms. Crisp and clean minerality.
Giovanni is “Il pastore che fa il vino”, a third-generation shepherd who not only is “the shepherd who makes wine” but also delicious cheese and olive oil from ancient Umbrian trees protected by Unesco. Originally from the Barbagia, the Mountain region of Sardinia, he moved to Umbria as a young child where he grew up and married Cosetta. Several years ago planted 3 hectares of grapes to make all indigenous varietals other than staying true to his roots and also planting Vermentino to make his first and cult natural wine the “Vermentuzzo”. The sheep, trees and grapes are all farmed on organic soil in the elevated, rugged and mountainous central wine region of Umbria, Pianello.
At 300 metres above sea level, the organic soil is a mixture of marl coming from an ancient salt lake and limestone rock. Giovanni’s approach to winemaking is very ‘hands off’ and allows wild yeasts to ferment the wines, while using stainless tanks to preserve the purity of these wines. All wines are unfiltered and unfined with zero sulphites added even down to the labels that are made from the grass in winery, as Giovanni says “to capture the magical expression of the fruit and the earth”.
