Ancarani
Centesimino | 2020
Regular price $26.00
Product Specifications
- Producer
- Ancarani
- Winemaker
- Claudio Ancarani & Rita Babini
- Importer
- Owen Kotler Selections
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Emilia-Romagna
- Sub-region
- Ravenna
- Farming
- Organic
- Type
- Red
- Varietal
- Centesimino
- Vintage
- 2020
- Alcohol %
- 14
- Sulfites added
- Minimal
- Container
- Bottle
- Container
- Bottle
- Volume
- 750 ml
- Volume
- 750 ml
- Background
"Santa Lucia is a small town next to Faenza on the Romagna side of Emilia-Romagna. The soft rolling hills become the mountains of the Appennines and it is here that a revival is occurring. Indigneous, heritage varietals are being rediscovered and revived.
Claudio is most often found in the vineyards he inherited from his grandfather. As taught by his grandfather and father, he is a non-interventionist utilizing only indigenous varietals, organic grapes manually picked, native yeast,no manipulation of any kind, no new oak barrels - stainless or cement instead.
And as a result his wines are intense, true to their place! The soils here are a combination of clay, lime & sand which give the grapes and resulting wine a pureness of flavor and a perfect balance of freshness, acidity & tannin. These wines are truly representative of the terroir - a chance to taste the place in a glass....drinkability, structure, and elegance abound!
Centesimino (Savignon Rosso) was thought to be a lost varietal until 1960(something) when vines were discovered in the walled off garden of a gardner named Pietro Pianori. He had saved it (and many other plants) during phylloxera and is now thought to be one of the few ungrafted vinifera vines left on this planet. All Centesimino vines are descended from the cuttings in that walled garden." - Owen Kotler Selections
- Serving temperature
- Room