Serrapetrona

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The territory is divided equally between a montane zone, with elevations ranging from 500 to 1,000 metres above sea level and viticulture limited to up to 700 metres, and an upper-hillside zone.
• The soils of the montane zone derive geologically from calcareous ridges that have produced rocky limestone outcrops in the valley of the Cesolone stream, along with cherty limestone and calcareous marls of the red and grey scaglia facies.
• The cultivated soils of the montane zone are thin and stony, developed directly on calcareous-marly bedrock.
• The soils of the hillside zone are almost always calcareous, stony, and rarely alluvial, of sandy-clayey formation with the presence of sands as the final episode of marine sedimentation.
• The climate belongs to the Upper Hillside phytoclimatic belt, with mean annual rainfall exceeding 700–800 mm and mean temperatures below approximately 14°C, while July records mean precipitation of 800 mm and mean temperatures of 21°C.
• Slope gradients in the montane zone, which accounts for 40% of the area, fall mostly between 35% and 70%, while in the remaining hillside zone, representing 60% of the area, they range from 0% to 35%.
• The prevailing aspect of the territory is east- and south-facing, the orientations most favourable to vine cultivation.

• Chronicles from 1562 record that vine cultivation in the territory of Camerino, including the localities of Borgiano and Castel San Venanzo at Serrapetrona, was distinguished for both quality and quantity.
• The name Vernaccia may derive from the Latin 'ver' (spring), since the lengthy conditioning of the grape clusters before pressing renders the wine unready to drink before springtime.

• On the nose the wine shows minerality and sulphurous notes, while on the palate it is dry, assertive, moderately tannic, and full-bodied.
• The wine shows aromas of red mulberry, blackcurrant, and wild cherry with smoky notes, while on the palate it is dry, lean, warm, and enveloping.

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-A0451
• Official trade body site — Istituto Marchigiano di Tutela Vini (IMT)