Roccafiore. Rosato

Umbria IGT
Grape: Sangiovese

2023
Pale, crystal washed out copper pink. Blueberry and cherry aromas, sour cherry and strawberry, a sophisticated Haribo. Dry, precise and very pretty rosé.  12.5%

2025
A washed out salmon pink with a crystalline purity. Black cherry and strawberry fruit, with ripe lemon, salt and rose. Dry and delicious. 12%

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Umbrian Rosato is a relative newcomer to the ever growing encyclopaedia of Italian wines: it is a phenomenon powered by 3 months of summer that leave the red option too much for the locals. Sangiovese is well suited to rosé, and Roccafuiore use the Brunello clone (Sangiovese Grosso) from the lower part of an east-facing vineyard planted in 2004. White clay and limestone soils, the vines are Guyot trained at 6500 vines per hectare. The grapes are hand-picked in the first week of September, to preserve acidity and avoid excessive alcohol. All the bunches are destemmed, then pressed and fermented with wild yeasts in temperature-controlled steel tanks. The fermentation starts with the skins for just 3 to 4 hours; it is then transferred into a clean tank to finish fermenting and to age on the lees for 6 months. Malolactic fermentation is blocked to maintain treasured acidity.