WINE NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO D.O.C.G.

Podere Corsica consists of five vineyards: Vigna al Piano (which while seeming low-lying is in fact on the top of a hill which appears to have had the top cut off!), Vigna al Fosso, Vigne dei Mandorli I and II and Vigna di Querceritta (the most recent). The Vino Nobile grapes in each vineyard are chosen by hand and fermented in stainless steel containers. The wine is the then placed in tonneaux or small French oak barrels where the Vino Nobile they acquire all the necessary typical characteristics. The aging period is concluded by several months of bottle aging which coincides with the hot summer months. This helps the wine to deal better with its first summer as a finished product. I enjoy personally overseeing the entire aging process of my wines. I want to be sure that they are really ready to be drunk by my customers, even if this sometimes means that they arrive on the market a little later than other wines. In fact, my Vino Nobile is sold only in September after the second year of production, when it reaches its best conditions for tasting.
Those who know my wines appreciate this practice because they know that the wine’s intitial hardness falls away in the bottle and the most beautiful characteristics of the Prugnolo Gentile grape emerge (there is only a small presence of Mammolo grapes). It is also for this reason that my Vino Nobile is often listed as one of the“classici di Montepulciano”, which is to say, one of the wines that most typically represents the characteristics of Montepulciano’s grapes.

Grape Varieties: Prugnolo gentile 90%, Colorino 5%, Mammolo 5%
Can be kept for: 10 – 12 years

AZIENDA AGRICOLA ROMEO
Cantina e vigneti: Podere Corsica SS. 326 n°25  Loc. Nottola 53045 Montepulciano ( Siena )
tel e fax: +39.0578.708599 email: info@massimoromeo.it