Cantina Ludovico

Abruzzo
Italy
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Cantina Ludovico

Abruzzo
Italy
Italy
PRODUCER
Lorenza Ludovico
ESTABLISHED
FARMING PRACTICE
Organic
REGION
Abruzzo
Italy
CITY / VILLAGE
CLIMATE
Mediterranean
ELEVATION
SIZE
2 hectares

About

Lorenza Ludovico cultivates a very tiny two hectares of rugged, intense vineyards in the rocky mountain area of L'Aquila in Abruzzo. It's a truly rural place, with mountain peaks wrapped in fog and vines trained high enough so wild boars can't get to the fruit. Her wines are full-fruited, expressive, and unfurl in the glass. The altitude of her vineyards also helps retain a clear freshness in the nose of her three wines ('black,' the Cerasuolo, which is 'light red,' and bianco), against a lower acidity that's common to these grape varieties and the overall warmth of the climate.

In a way, Lorenza's work is simple, with the wines vinified in stainless steel in a tiny cellar that's part of a small stone country house some centuries old. But these bottles deliver a significantly more personal and higher-quality wine than what is commonly made in the region and certainly what's routinely available in the global market. We're very proud to be working with Lorenza and love sharing her little love letter to the rough, mountainous, rural dimensions of Abruzzo that we rarely get to see or drink.

Products

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

TYPE
Still / Red
VARIETAL
Montepulciano
FARMING PRACTICE
Organic
DETAILS

Organic. 100% Montepulciano. Taken from a .8ha, east-facing vineyard on clayey soils, vines 25 years of age; the vineyard is called 'Suffonte.' Grapes are hand-harvested, then 100% destemmed. Macerated for five days during spontaneous fermentation; wine is fermented and rests in stainless steel for ten months afterward. Unfined, unfiltered, 8mg/l SO2 added after completion of fermentation. This vision of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is anything but common: it’s Montepulciano of the farmhouse, the Abruzzo mountains, the woods. Expressive, rustic, living wine – not boring or smoothed out with wood, filtration, chemicals. A joyful, clear reminder of why Italian red wine is just delicious.

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Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo

TYPE
Still / Rosé
VARIETAL
Montepulciano
FARMING PRACTICE
Organic
DETAILS

Organic. 100% Montepulciano. .3ha east-facing vineyard parcel, 20 year-old vines, on clayey soils. Grapes are destemmed and then directly pressed into stainless steel tanks; spontaneous fermentation, no fining or filtering. 8g/l SO2 added after the completion of malolactic. Rosy, ruddy-fruited, with a glossy, candied red fruit nose that gives way to dust and earth on the palate, along with cherry lozenge. Rustic and lovely, wide open in aromatics: simply the best Cerasuolo for the money we’ve had in years.

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Bianco 'Tre Ma'

TYPE
Still / White
VARIETAL
Trebbiano, Malvasia, Pecorino
FARMING PRACTICE
Organic
DETAILS

Organic. 50% Trebbiano, 40% Malvasia, 10% Pecorino ("Tre Ma," plus Pecorino to top up the tank). Trebbiano and Malvasia are co-fermented, fully destemmed, in one stainless steel tank; Pecorino is vinified separately and then blended into the larger wine later on, toward the end of primary ferment. 10 months' aging in steel, then one-two months resting in bottle before release. Drawn from a few different tiny pieces of white varieties scattered throughout Lorenza Ludovico's tiny holdings in the mountains of Abruzzo around the town of L'Aquila, at 370m above sea level, on clay-calcareous soils that Lorenza describes as "very minerally." Vines are around 30 years of age, .3ha of vines total. 7000 bottles produced.

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