Pergola

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The production area is crossed by the Cesano river, which lies approximately 30 km from the sea and has in Pergola its main economic and social hub.
• Vineyards are present at all elevations between 100 and 1,600 metres above sea level, with the greatest concentration between 200 and 500 metres.
• Geologically, calcarenitic-pelitic and marly-calcareous rocks predominate in the foothill zone, while the valley floor is occupied by alluvial deposits with predominantly gravelly terraces.
• The climate belongs to the upper-hill phytoclimatic zone, with mean annual rainfall exceeding 700–800 mm and mean temperatures below 14 °C.
• The course of the Cesano river runs northward, so that approximately 80% of the hillside formations within its catchment face east or west.

• The town was founded by the people of Gubbio around 1220, and the vine arrived in the territory at Grifoleto, brought by a nobleman from Gubbio, in the year 1200.
• With the arrival of phylloxera the variety fell into complete decline, further neglected at the beginning of the 1900s with the introduction of the new viticulture on American rootstocks, before recovering its role over the past few decades thanks to new plantings.
• The centuries-old production tradition reproduced in the countryside the Marche alberata system — the vine trained up a field maple — today replaced by vertical trellis training with long double-arched cane pruning.

• The wine displays a bright ruby-red colour with purple highlights, with an aromatic profile ranging from spice to floral notes of dried rose and violet.
• The palate is full and harmonious, well balanced, and thanks to its soft tannins leaves a sensation of suppleness and roundness on the finish.

• The variety favours siliceous, calcareous, stony hillside soils that are well exposed but not overly fertile, and in a foothill and hilly territory sheltered from sea winds and benefiting from good sun exposure, it produces a wine rich in aromas.

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-A0429
• Official trade body site — Istituto Marchigiano di Tutela Vini (IMT)