Biodynamic viticulture also means rediscovering traditions, abandoned in favor of more commercial non-native varieties. Alicante Nero represents producer’s way of being winemaker. Behind the joyful and fresh character lies an elegance and a unique finesse. It captivates you with its strawberry and floral notes and then grabs you with notes of earth, graphite and spices. Alicante Nero is a native variety of Upper Maremma, which was removed to make space for other varieties with deeper colors and stronger bodies. The wine is aged for 10 months in concrete tanks and displays strawberry and floral notes and opens with earth, graphite and spicy character.
Serve at 14-16°C with tuna tartare, braised duck, tomato and chorizo sausage stew.
Ampeleia was established in 2002, the year in which Marco Tait, young and impulsive at the time, answered the call of the current owners, Elisabetta Foradori and Giovanni Podini, to take charge of the first harvest, without being fully aware of what he was getting involved in. Marco, fresh out of oenology and viticulture school, had been enchanted by the call of the Maremma and he and Elisabetta had known each other for a while. Ampeleia is wine, of course. But it is also wheat and oil. It is vineyard, but also vegetable garden and olive groves. It is people, but also animals. It is high and it is low, it is small and it is large. It is work and opportunity for both professional and personal growth.
