Pentro di Isernia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Molise covers 4,438 square kilometres, with a predominantly mountainous territory: 55.3% mountain and 44.7% hill.
• The mean annual temperature in the area ranges between 13.5 and 14.8 degrees Celsius, while mean annual rainfall lies between 696.8 and 1,067 millimetres.
• Approximately 60% of rainfall is concentrated in the autumn–winter period, with a fairly uniform distribution across the territory and typically Mediterranean characteristics.
• The geological substrate consists of calcareous-marly formations of Paleogene age and of arenaceous and marly-arenaceous formations of Miocene age.
• The cultivation area of Pentro is found in a hilly landscape system with well-drained, deep, fine-textured, calcareous and stony soils, and in a foothill system with coalescent alluvial fans.

• Molise viticulture was already known in Greek times, with a wine called Paetrutianum, and Pliny praised a wine obtained from a vine called pumula in the area of Isernia.
• The controlled designation of origin for the wines Pentro or Pentro di Isernia was recognised by decree of the President of the Republic of 18 May 1983, published in the Official Gazette on 26 January 1984.

• The wines of the appellation show balanced chemical and physical characteristics across all styles, with good alcoholic strength and high phenolic concentration, perceptible on both the nose and the finish.
• All the wines display a modest level of acidity, owing to the natural decrease in grape acidity achieved at optimal ripeness.

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-A0684