Wine Falesco, "Marciliano", Umbria IGT, 2014

Wine "Marciliano" is one of the greatest Cabernet maps of central Italy. It is for growing Cabernet economy Falesko were acquired vineyards in the municipality of Montecchio, exposure and terroir which promotes the production of the "big" Cabernet with clear and pronounced varietal characteristics. Sites are located at an altitude of 350 meters above sea level on the sediment and clay-calcareous soils. Viticulturists spend the summer here thinning clusters aimed at limiting production to 600-800 grams of grapes from the vines to maintain the highest quality of the crop, which is usually harvested by hand in mid-September. The winery fall only individually selected clusters. After a long maceration on the skins for 28 days with regular multiple clicks fermented in steel tanks. Malolactic fermentation, as well as subsequent aging of wine for 16 months, takes place in new French oak barrels Nevers and Tronkays. Storage capacity of wine is 10 years.

Falesko Winery, owned by the brothers Riccardo and Renzo Kotarella located in Lazio, near Rome, near Lake Bolsena, in the lands where wines for centuries been famous for their quality and delivered to the courts of the Roman aristocracy and the Vatican. Founded the winery in 1979. When in the late 1970s, Ricardo Kotarella land sought to implement his plan, his choice, after a long study of the area and cultivated, and fell on the vineyard Poggio dei Dzhelsi located on the lakeside slope at an altitude of 400 meters above sea level. In addition to the extremely successful position of the vineyard, facing south-west, and the pebbly soil, enologist attracted and that in those places are ancient and rare varieties of white grapes, including the once famous and almost disappeared Rochette. Recently Falesko enriched their property acquisition Marchilyano estate, which occupies 260 hectares in the south of the picturesque hills of Orvieto in the municipality of Montague.

Both brothers Kotarella - oenologists. Ricardo Kotarella, one of the founders and owners of the Wine House Falesko - personality in Italy legendary. He was one of those who started the revival of Italian winemaking, working in almost all regions of the country. Today, he advises 65 farms, including in France. However, unlike other "touring" oenologist of the first magnitude, Ricardo Kotarella together with his younger brother Renzo, general manager of the "empire" Antinori, has his own farm Falesco. His stellar wines from one year to receive the highest ratings colleagues are perhaps the best proof of mastery. Ricardo Kotarella able to create a wine for meditation, and to accompany the dishes that for the Italian mentality, perhaps more important than self-contained product. In 2001, Ricardo Kotarella received the title of "Best Italian winemaker," and in the same year, along with his brother Renzo Kotarella - the title of "Best winemaker of the world."