Wine Bucci Tenuta Pongelli Rosso Piceno DOC, 2006
Tasting Notes
Ruby-colored wine.
The wine has a light taste with good structure and soft finish.
The wine has a scent with notes of plums and red berries.
The wine goes well with red and white meat, grilled fish.
Interesting Facts
Wine "Bucci Tenuta Pongelli Rosso Piceno DOC" is made of two grape varieties - Sangiovese and Montepulciano collected from mature vines forty years. Varieties complement each other perfectly, gentle nature of Sangiovese softens aggressive tannins varieties Montepulciano Pondzhelli. Harvest each vineyard, limited 50/60 kilograms per hectare, collected and fermented separately, allowing you to achieve a better balance, complexity and individuality with a further blending of wines. Bucci Tenuta Pondzhelli wine is fermented at low temperatures, which are supported in a natural way, and the shutter is held in large Slavonian oak barrels.
Bucci family, originally from Castelli di Jesi, is engaged in agriculture since 1700. The current owner of the company -Ampelio Bucci - manages 400 acres of land on which grows not only wine, but also other cultures - olives, corn, wheat, sugar beet, sorghum and sunflowers. The main vineyard Bucci area of 21 hectares is located in the Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. Here grown varieties Verdicchio. Vineyard in the DOC Rosso Piceno, a 5-hectare, the company grows Sangiovese and Montepulciano. In order to improve the quality of agriculture, Ampelio Bucci completely eliminate the use of pesticides and herbicides and adheres to organic cultivation technology of vines and olive groves. He also introduced the vineyards are very strict rules limiting the productivity of vines almost 2 times. The average volume of production of red wines from their own grapes is 300 tons per year.
