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Collecapretta - Il Forestiero 2020

 Biodynamic Grown Organically 

Price: $70.90

Quantity in Stock: 9
Producer Collecapretta
Country Italy
Region Umbria
Varietal Blend
Vintage 2020
Sku 1132866
Size 750ml

Tasting Notes: “il Forestiero” or “the Stranger” (a reference to the grape emerging from a more famous nearby wine appellation) is 100% Sagrantino from a single row of old vines. Spontaneous fermentation without temperature control, with 10 days skin maceration.. Aged for a year in fiberglass tanks before bottling. No added sulfur and no filtering or fining. 

Estate History: The Mattioli family has been cultivating the rugged hillsides of southern most Umbria in the tiny hamlet the Roman's once called Collecapretta (hill of the goats) since the 1100's. Located just outside of Spoleto, in the near-impossible-to-find borgo called Terzo la Pieve, today's farm is a scant 8 hectares in total; 2 planted to a mixture of local olives trees, 2 ha of farro and other ancient grains and  ~ 4 ha of indigenous old vines. Vittorio Mattioli, his wife Anna and their daughter Annalisa live together with 3 generations of their family inside the tiny village overlooking the valley below with the high Apennine Mountains and Gran Sasso looming in the background. All the wines are made in much the same fashion: natural fermentation takes place in open-top cement containers without temperature control or sulfur additions. Though the total production of Collecapretta is only some 8000 bottles in a good year, the family chooses to vinify many different cuvee's in hopes of expressing the vineyard and grape varieties at their best.

 

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