Montello Rosso

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The hills of Montello and the Colli Asolani are composed of large formations of compact conglomerate, covered by a marl-clay or marl-sandy soil of red colouring.
• The altitude of the area ranges from 100 to 450 metres above sea level, with a landscape characterised by gentle, harmonious slopes and curves.
• The soils are decarbonated and acidic in reaction, moderately deep, with good water-holding capacity and good mineral endowment, and display intact, undisturbed stratigraphic profiles.
• Very often the conglomerate mass presents numerous more or less vertical fractures that promote underground water circulation and the formation of karstic phenomena, evidenced on the Montello in particular by more than 2,000 sinkholes that form an underground drainage system.
• Summer temperatures average 22.6 °C with peaks in July, and precipitation amounts to approximately 700 mm from April to September with a reasonably regular distribution.

• The Benedictine monks settled around the year 1000 at the monastery of S. Bona in Vidor and at the Certosa del Montello in Nervesa influenced the agrarian and viticultural history of the territory.
• In the sixteenth century, Giovanni Alvise Salamon stated that the red wines of the Montello and the Colli Asolani were sold within the Republic at considerably higher prices than other wines, on account of their quality and refinement.
• Only vertical trellis (spalliera semplice) training systems are permitted for vineyards destined for this appellation. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• The wine displays a ruby-red colour tending towards garnet with ageing, with soft tannins and a high concentration of anthocyanins.
• The bouquet is vinous and intense, with a full structure and a fine balance among its various components, as well as a high degree of softness on the palate.
• Extended ageing in oak casks imparts elegance and a bouquet that tends towards the ethereal.

• The mild autumn conditions, favoured by sun-exposed slopes sheltered from cold northerly winds, allow for prolonged ripening that reduces the herbaceous and rough notes in the wine.
• Soils composed of leaner marls favour, in the red wines, a rich phenolic composition, a varied aromatic composition, and a well-calibrated sugar-to-acid ratio.

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-A0461
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Vini Asolo Montello