Ranchelle Pergolacce 2020

The Pergolacce is a red wine which come from a newly planted vineyard located in an area which is called Pergolacce. This vineyard of 1 ha consists of half Ciliegiolo and half Alicante (Grenache, planted in 2015 with the aim to provide a base for a fresh and fruity red wine with short skin contact. The two grape varieties are harvested by hand separately according to their ripeness. After de-stemming the most starts its natural fermentation with the skins, but after 24 hours of skin contact fermentation the most is lightly pressed and continues fermentation without skins. Once the alcoholic and the malolactic fermentation is over, the wines of the two grape varieties are mixed together and will stay for about 5 months in a steel vessel, before being bottled in springtime. The Pergolacce is a wine with light violet color and is full of of fruity freshness and silky smoothness. Technically it is a "rose", but the Ciliegiolo, even though only for 24 hours on the skins, has given so much color that it is called more appropriately "light red wine". The high acidity and the soft tannins make it very pleasant to drink - in fact it's a perfect glou glou wine. Even though not aged in wood barrels and being ready for drinking already after half a year after the harvest, it is expected that it has nevertheless enough substance for preserving its freshness at least for about 5 years.