2020 Iacopo Paolucci ‘Il Furioso’ Grechetto Frizzante, Umbria IGT

VINEYARD:
The vineyard’s elevation is 500 meters and the soils are both clay and tufa. The vines
are old have have been overgrafted and trained to Guyot. The vineyard remote,
beautiful and certified organic. Iacopo believes in bio-diversity at the property and
uses herb cover crops that grow naturally and he left old olive trees between plots of
vines to foster a health ecosystem within his vineyard. While not fully biodynamic he
does follow many of its practices.

WINEMAKING:
One night pre-fermentation maceration to extract the indigenous yeasts from the
bunches. A part of the must is separated and frozen, keeping a sugar content sufficient
to guarantee its recovery at a later time without further additions of sugars and yeasts.
Subsequently, fermentation is started which lasts about a month in steel tanks. The
wine obtained will spend the winter in containers placed outside. Low temperatures
will ensure that the wine reaches a natural stability. In spring, the “hibernated” must is
reintroduced, just before bottling. The refermentation takes place in the bottle in the
total absence of chemical additives.No filtrations are carried out