Collecapretta Galantuomo 2022

100% Barbera

Organic

Umbria, Italy

Deep-colored red wine obtained from an old Barbera vineyard of over forty years, grown in an espalier at a height of six hundred meters. The cycles of the moon are followed for work in the countryside and for racking and bottling practices. The land is helped only with compost taken from the farm's animals. No yeasts are added except those from the grapes and from the cellar. The must ferments for ten days with the skins and after racking it remains in fiberglass, undergoing decanting twice before bottling in October.

The Mattioli family has been in the tiny hamlet the Roman's once called Collecapretta (hill of the goats) since the 1100's. For generations the Mattioli have been cultivating the rugged hillsides of southern most Umbria. Located just outside of Spoleto, in the near-impossible-to-find borgo called Terzo la Pieve, today's farm is a scant 8 hectares in total; 2 planted to a mixture of local olives trees, 2 ha of farro and other ancient grains and  ~ 4 ha of indigenous old vines. Vittorio Mattioli, his wife Anna and their daughter Annalisa live together with 3 generations of their family inside the tiny village overlooking the valley below with the high Apennine Mountains and Gran Sasso looming in the background. The elevation is some 500+ meters and the soils are a mixture of calcium and iron rich clay with outcroppings of tufo and travertine limestone. Though the total production of Collecapretta is only some 8000 bottles in a good year, the family chooses to vinify many different cuvee's in hopes of expressing the vineyard and grape varieties at their best.