Vernaccia di Serrapetrona

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The name «Vernaccia» is thought to derive from the long aging of the grape clusters before pressing, which rendered the wine undrinkable until spring (from the Latin «ver», meaning spring).

• Mountain-zone soils: rocky calcare, flint-bearing calcare, and calcareous marne with red and grey scaglia, thin and stony.
• Hillside soils of arenaceous-argillaceous formation with sandy components, a remnant of the last marine sedimentation.

• Calcareous-marnose mountain soils (rocky calcare, flint-bearing calcare, red scaglia marne) favor vineyards planted on exposed bedrock.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0445
• Official trade body site — Istituto Marchigiano di Tutela Vini (IMT)