Region: Abruzzo
Grape: Montepulciano, Trebbiano
Vineyard Size: 2 hectares
Soil: clay, limestone
Average Age of Vines: 25 years
Farming: mixed
Harvest: by hand
Winemaking: whole cluster, spontaneous fermentation in cement with indigenous yeasts, one-week pigéage
Aging: in cement
Fining: none
Filtration: none
Added S02: none

Davide Gentile and Marco Giuliani

We are Davide and Marco. We’ve been friends since 3 years old, and although we took different roads at times, we found each other again during college. Since then, we began our journey into the world of wine.

Our wines are made simply by spontaneously fermented grapes. We don’t add anything else, no clarifying agents or filtration. Residual lees and grape skins are indicators of a genuine and natural process, necessary to keep the wines alive.

We’re in a process of constant research, taking inspiration from many winemakers that we’ve met on our journey and with whom we continue to have a dialog about how to cultivate, ferment, conserve, and age wines. They are a source through which we synthesize our experience, which is in constant evolution.

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