Frusinate

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Soils on a carbonate platform: limestones permeable through fracturing and karst processes, dolomitic limestones and travertines at higher elevations.
• Hill zone over marly limestones and sandstones; alluvial plain characterised by red soils with Quaternary terraces of clays and gravels.
• Southern zone with low hills of Miocene age formed from argillaceous-marly-arenaceous flysch.
• Vineyards between 12 and 980 m above sea level, with a general west and south-west aspect, in predominantly mountainous and hilly terrain.
• Four phytoclimatic zones: ranging from upper temperate hill (rainfall 1,098–1,233 mm/year) to transitional Mediterranean meso-Mediterranean on the plain.

• Vines trained onto living supports or in high festoon systems, a practice that traces the continuity between Etruscan and Greek viticulture in the territory.

• Flat alluvial soils with red soils and Quaternary terraces of clays and gravels influence the wine profile of the Valle Latina.

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

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-IT-A0770