Region
Italy › Emilia-Romagna › Vino
Type
white · still · semi-dry
Grapes
Malvasia di Candia Aromatica
Alcohol
13.5%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes(2)
4.1
The full note is for members.
Join to read it and the rest4.2
Members only
About
This wine is named after the founder of La Stoppa, lawyer Ageno, who was the first to believe and give value the great potential of this area. A skin-contact white of the estate, obtained after a long spontaneous maceration from grapes of this hot and low yielding land. A person responsible for production is Giulio Armani.
- First Production: 2002
- Agriculture: Organic, natural green cover between the rows. No fertilizing, weed killers or pesticides
- Soil Type: Clay Silt
- Trellis System: Simple Guyot
- Age of vines: 20 years
- Density: 6000 plants per hectare
- Vinification: 4 months maceration on skins in stainless steel and/or cement tanks
- Fermentation and aging: Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, aged in 40 hectolitre wooden tanks and in bottle for a time necessary, no filtration or sulphites added
- Produced: 27 236 bottles
2022 was the drought-and-heat vintage: Emilia-Romagna picked more than a week early, with sugars running roughly half a degree of alcohol above 2021 per the region's harvest reports, though March and early-May rains spared it the worst. The heat did not shorten the skin contact - Triple A and MORE Natural Wine both report the standard four months for the 2022.
