Colli di Luni

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Hilly substrates of argillaceous-arenaceous marine turbidites; plains with silty-loam fluvial sediments.
• Moderately deep soils, coarse-loam texture, pH ranging from neutral to sub-alkaline.
• Vineyards between 0 and 700 m a.s.l., predominant elevation 100–200 m, slope 10–20%, predominantly south-east facing.
• Mean Huglin Index ~2010°C (range 1830–2250): a medium-warm ripening zone.
• Annual rainfall ~1,230 mm, peaking in November (~170 mm) and reaching a summer minimum in July (average 29 mm).

• Pliny the Elder (†79 AD) attested to the quality of the wine from Luni, a Roman port whose archaeological area survives to this day.
• Vermentino, having arrived via the Côte d'Azur, is the historically dominant variety; its vocation was consolidated in the eighteenth century.

• Soils derived from argillaceous-arenaceous turbidites in the hills and silty-loam fluvial sediments on the plains shape the wine profile of the DOC.

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-A0353
• Official trade body site — Vite in Riviera — Consorzio tutela DOP/IGP Levante ligure