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.
• Hilly belt on marly limestones and arenaria; alluvial plain characterised by red soils with Quaternary terraces of argille and gravels.
• Southern zone with low hills of Miocene age formed by argillaceous-marly-arenaceous flysch.
• Vineyards between 12 and 980 m a.s.l., with a general west and south-west exposure, in predominantly mountainous-hilly terrain.
• Four phytoclimatic regions: from upper temperate hillside (rainfall 1,098–1,233 mm/year) to transitional meso-Mediterranean in the lowlands.

• Vines married to living supports or trained on high festoons, a practice that traces the continuity between Etruscan and Greek viticulture in the territory.

• Flat alluvial soils with red earths and Quaternary terraces of argille 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