Asolo Montello

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The area lies within the hill districts of Montello and the Colli Asolani, at altitudes ranging from 100 to 450 metres above sea level.
• The hills are formed from compact conglomerate covered by marly-clayey or marly-sandy soil of a red colouration that testifies to their ancient origin.
• The conglomerate mass very often displays numerous more or less vertical fractures that favour underground water circulation and the formation of karstic phenomena, evidenced on the Montello in particular by more than 2,000 sinkholes.
• The climate is characterised by summers with mean temperatures of 22.6 °C and maximum values in July, with mild springs and autumns thanks to the favourable south-facing exposure of the vineyard slopes and to the alignment of the ridges perpendicular to the cold north-easterly winds.
• Rainfall totals around 700 mm from April to September, with a reasonably regular distribution, and the hilly position of the soils facilitates the drainage of excess water.

• Benedictine monks settled around the year 1000 at the monastery of S. Bona in Vidor and at the charterhouse of Montello in Nervesa, shaping the agricultural and viticultural history of the territory.
• In the second half of the 1300s the area passed to the Venetians, and the Colli Asolani and Montello were recognised as a wine-producing zone, with wines already being exported abroad by the 1400s.
• The varieties Bianchetta and Recantina, as indigenous and ancient varieties, lend originality to the range of wines of the appellation.

• The red wines display a ruby-red colour tending towards garnet with ageing, with a character that is sometimes savoury, soft, harmonious, lightly tannic, and lightly herbaceous.
• The white wines range in colour from straw-yellow to a more or less deep golden yellow, with a fresh, savoury, fruity, and harmonious aroma and intense floral and fruity notes with citrus hints.
• The quality sparkling wines range in colour from pale to brilliant straw-yellow, with a persistent mousse and citrus notes alongside floral and fruity aromas lifted by a fresh acidity.

• The valley-floor and flat areas, with their deeper and more fertile soil profiles, yield soft, distinguished red wines with a rich phenolic and aromatic composition.
• Soils composed of leaner marls favour in the red wines a rich phenolic composition, a diverse aromatic composition, and a well-calibrated sugar-to-acid balance.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0460
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Vini Asolo Montello