Ortaccio Rosso – Cantina Ortaccio

Ortaccio Rosso – Cantina Ortaccio

Cantina Ortaccio's Red Ortaccio is a delicate wine with hints of spices and red fruits. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in fiberglass. Refine in chestnut and third passage oak barrels for at least 12 months, and in bottle for at least 3 months. Without added sulphites.

Service

It is advisable to taste it at a temperature of 16/18 ° C in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but holds up very well time.

Pairings

It marries beautifully with earthenware, baked pasta and second courses based on red meat.

Winery: Cantina Ortaccio

Cantina ortaccio, a stone's throw from Lake Bolsena and a few kilometers from the border with Tuscany, is the project carried out by Massimo, an innkeeper and a long-time wine lover, and Patrizia, who came to wine later. It is a life changing project! The vineyards, some of which are ungrafted, are located between Gradoli and Latera, in a territory of volcanic origin located between 400 and 550 meters above sea level. The vines, grown without the use of synthetic products, are those of the local tradition: Trebbiano, Procanico and Malvasia for the white and Sangiovese, Grechetto and Ciliegiolo for the red. The grapes, harvested on the same day, are de-stemmed by hand, pressed with the feet and fermented with only indigenous yeasts. The cellar is the result of Patrizia's work as an architect: the narrow tunnels, dug by hand in the tuff in antiquity and now restored, give life to an ideal environment with a constant temperature both in summer and winter. Massimo and Patrizia recover ancient flavors and offer serious, sincere and intact wines.intact wines.