Colli Altotiberini

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Soils developed on alluvial deposits, Villafranchian sands, and Miocene marne and arenarie, with slopes of up to 30% and beyond.
• Soils for viticulture ranging from shallow to moderately deep, with loam/silt-loam/clay-loam texture, good calcare content, and sub-alkaline reaction.
• Soils taxonomically classified as Entisols and Inceptisols (Soil Survey Staff, 2010), trending toward brunification.
• Vineyards ranging from the valley floor (excluded from the DOC) up to 550 m a.s.l., in the north-central part of Umbria, in the province of Perugia.
• Mean annual rainfall 800–950 mm; mean maximum summer temperatures around 32 °C.

• DOC approved by Presidential Decree of 22.01.1980, with the production regulations subsequently updated through Ministerial Decree of 07.03.2014. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Local human factors, by long-established tradition, are recognized as determinant in the production of Colli Altotiberini.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0838