Milziade Antano, Umbria
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Milziade Antano, Umbria,
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Il Colleallodole (the skylark) is the soaring pinnacle of Francesco Antano’s Sagrantino estate, made, as the label says, from a site whose whereabouts he keeps firmly to himself. Compared to his classic Sagrantino di Montefalco, this brooding beauty has more of everything: dark garnet, the nose is darkly potent with baked wild herb, wild bramble and incense aromas; the fulsome palate follows being both richly sucoso (juicy), this time of loganberry fruit, while the ever present, square Sagrantino tannins are soothed by spirited redcurrant intensity and fruity acidity.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£250.00
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The Milziade Antano family of Fattoria Colleallodole have been associated with the Umbrian story of Montefalco and its Sagrantino grapes since the beginning. Initially as mezzadri (share-croppers), then in 1969 becoming land owners of 30 ha of prime, stony clay based land for vines and livestock on the road between Bevagna and Montefalco at 265 msl.
1975 saw the first vinification of the family’s wines, while it was not until the 1980s, that son Francesco (pictured right with his mother and his son Giordano) began to age and bottle the wines under their own label. Now the estate measures 40ha, of which 15 is planted with vines.
The wines are traditionally made, harvested at modest yields of c. 40 hl/ha, fermented and MLF in stainless-steel, aged for up to 36 months in large slavonian oak botte plus 12 months bottle ageing.
The Montefalco Rosso is an early drinking style while the ‘vigna/cru’ Colleallodole Sagrantino di Montefalco, so named in homage to the heights that the local skylark climbs, is born of the estate’s finest, oldest vines, and produced in tiny quantities (1500 bottles).