I Terreni di Sanseverino

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The territory is crossed from west to east by the river Potenza, while to the north the river Musone originates and traverses it marginally.
• The area is bounded to the west by the pre-Apennine buttress of Monte San Vicino, which, together with a stretch of the central Apennines, encloses the internal valley known as the Camerte syncline.
• The prevailing lithology is that typical of the Marche pre-Apennine belt, with generally stable calcareous substrates and a predominance of calcisols and marls with moderately developed profiles.
• The elevation of the area ranges from 230 metres above sea level at San Severino to 1,260 metres above sea level near Monte San Vicino, which reaches 1,479 metres.
• The thermal resources of the territory, assessed using the Amerine and Winkler bioclimatic index, average between 1,600 and 1,800 degree-days, values suited to late-ripening varieties.
• The rainfall of the area, recorded over a forty-year period at a meteorological station in San Severino, amounts to 790 millimetres per year, concentrated mainly in the autumn and winter months.

• San Severino was founded as a Roman colony under the name Settempeda, and the cultivation of the vine, after the decline of the ancient world, re-established itself from the early Middle Ages through to the fourteenth century.
• Over the centuries, the wines of San Severino were traded in Rome, in the Veneto, and in other lordships of the time, and were also used as prestigious gifts and as instruments of diplomatic peacemaking.
• In 1809 the abbot Rastelli listed Vernaccia among the varieties of distinction and described techniques for drying the ripest bunches for twelve to fifteen days on mats or wooden boards in a well-ventilated, dry place.
• From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1940s, local agriculture was based on landholdings known as Terreni, farmed directly or under sharecropping (mezzadria) by large family units, with a cultivable surface of around 10 hectares.

• The Rosso Passito wine displays a light ruby colour tending toward garnet, an intense and characteristic nose of appassimento, and a velvety palate that is pleasantly off-dry or sweet.
• The Rosso Superiore wine has a deep ruby colour, excellent structure, and a palate that is savoury, harmonious, and characteristic, with a pleasant and complex nose.
• All wine types are subject to a mandatory ageing period of a minimum of between 18 and 24 months, in order to enhance the characteristics of the grape varieties used.

• Restricting yields of Montepulciano grown under slightly limiting thermal conditions to below 8 t/ha makes it possible to obtain the Moro wine with its deep ruby colour.

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

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0432
• Official trade body site — Istituto Marchigiano di Tutela Vini (IMT)