Vigne Cave Col di Tenda - Alessio Zappasodi, Francesco Torquati
Our project starts from the idea of recovering three vineyards located on a hill a few kilometers from the sea behind San Benedetto del Tronto, in a very suggestive and panoramic countryside area, on one side you can see the sea and on the other the mountains .
The vineyards are exposed to the south and planted in former gravel quarries, used in the past to build roads to neighboring villages.
In total we have 2.5 hectares of certified organic vineyard divided between Montepulciano (planted in 2000), Sangiovese (planted in 2000) and Passerina (planted in (2015).
We use copper and sulfur according to the vintage, the harvest is manual and the grapes are transported to the cellar in boxes of a maximum of 15 kg each.
In the cellar the fermentation is spontaneous, we add 10 mg/l of sulfur dioxide only before fermentation, after which we do not use any other product, we do not clarify, we do not filter.
We produce three wines (using only our grapes) whose names are inspired by the Sambenedettese dialect: Chierina, Sburdejò and Salpadipoppa.