Collecapretta 'Vigna Vecchia' 2024

The Mattioli family has been in this spot since the 1100s. The Romans called it Collecapretta (hill of the goats) and not much has changed. Today, three generations live together in a tiny borgo outside Spoleto, farming just 8 hectares at 500 metres elevation, with the Gran Sasso mountains looming behind them.

The soils are calcium and iron-rich clay, with outcroppings of tufo and limestone. The farming is completely natural (only compost from their own animals touches the vines). In the cellar: fermentation in open-top cement, no temperature control, no sulfur. Ageing in glass-lined tanks. Bottling with the lunar cycle.

This wine is made with Trebbiano Spoletino from 95-year-old vines, direct-pressed and raised in cement and fiberglass. It's nothing like the Trebbiano you think you know. Here, the fruit runs from lemon to peach to pineapple, wrapped in electric tension and minerality. There's a lemon-cream richness, and an energy that keeps everything lifted.