WINERY: Vigna 800

DESCRIPTION:  Intense red color with shades tending to garnet with the ageing. A fine bouquet, ethereal, fruity and fragrant with pleasant note of cherries. Thanks to the maturation in steel, it maintains a special freshness. Recioto is the cassic sweet dessert  wine,  rich and armonic.

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BEST WITH: Cakes

• SOIL: Calcareous soil.
• AGE AND POSITIONING OF THE VINEYARDS: From family-owned hilly “ Campanar” Vineyard with an average age of 20 years.
• VINEYARDS: From selected Corvina- Corvinone (70%) and Rondinella (30%) grapes.
• PRODUCTION PER HA: 80q/ha
• HARVEST: Selected and handharvested grapes. Drying process in special areas called “Fruttai” for 120 days.
• VINIFICATION: Soft pressing of the grapes in January. Long maceration for 30 days. Fermentation in steel tanks.
• REFINEMENT: In steel tanks.

The farm business was born in 2001 for a bet of a man, Franco Elampini: producing good wine  with the  grapes of his own fields, just how it used to be in the past.

In the heartland of Valpolicella, the wine cellar Vigna ‘800 houses the finest wines of our tradition.

A place of taste and pleasure in order to appreciate the terroir of one of the most beautiful areas in Italy