Savuto

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• In the area, outcrops of schists, grey phyllites, gneiss, biotite schists, calcareous phyllites, and greenschists are observed, characterising the geology of the production zone.
• The soils are characterised by an accumulation of organic matter in the surface horizons, which appear very loose, brown, and endowed with a sufficiently developed interconnected porosity.
• Rainfall is concentrated mainly in the autumn–winter period, with maximum values in the months of October, December, and January, and a minimum in July.
• The climate is more variable between the hillier zones, which are rainier and more humid, and the zones bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea, where it is more temperate, with the highest mean monthly temperature in August and the lowest in January.
• The zone is defined by a sub-humid climate with low water deficit, along the valley of the river Savuto, which marks the boundary between the Reventino Massif and the Catena Costiera.

• Savuto is distinguished from other Calabrian wines by the fact that it derives from vines planted on the mountain slopes overlooking the river Savuto, rather than from vineyards sloping down towards the sea.
• The wine was extolled by Pliny and Strabo and was prized by Roman patricians, at whose banquets it was an indispensable presence, attesting to a distinguished tradition stretching back to antiquity.
• Production of Savuto stabilised only from the fifteenth century onwards, thanks to the development of maritime transport and the establishment of regular commercial relations with distant markets.
• The vine from which this wine is drawn is still trained today in the bush-vine (alberello) method, the system practised by the ancient Bruttii people in the third century BC.

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-A0620