I Cangianti Skizzo Pet Nat 2020

Skizzo is a pet nat rosé made from 100% Prugnolo Gentile — the Sangiovese Grosso clone grown around Montepulciano — from a 2.5-hectare vineyard at 280-300 meters elevation on sandy and tufaceous soils straddling the Tuscany-Umbria border. Vines are 20 years old, trained to spurred cordon, and farmed without chemicals with permanent ground cover. Annual production is just 1,300 bottles.

The wine is made by direct press with no maceration, fermented spontaneously with native yeasts for 5-6 days at ambient temperature in inox steel, then aged 6 months in steel before being bottled unfiltered and unfined to complete its second fermentation in bottle — the classic méthode ancestrale. No SO2 is added at any stage.

The denomination is Vino Spumante Rosato, and the wine registers as a pale sparkling rosé rather than a red. Prugnolo Gentile's naturally high acidity and firm structure carry through even without skin contact, giving Skizzo a taut, mineral backbone beneath its fruit. The mousse is gentle and persistent, typical of ancestral method wines.