Full bodied/ Rare Grape/ Oak barrel/ Organic/ Vegan/350 Btls Produced

Case of 6

Grape variety: Sagrantino, the native grape variety of this small and special region.

Awards/Ratings: 89 Vinous Media

Description: Il Bocale’s crowning jewel. This wine combines perfectly aromatic expressiveness and structural elegance. Of great character and personality, it gives its best with a perfect aging period. Limited production.

Aromas of cassis, mocha and cedar emerge from the glass. The concentrated palate offers dried black cherry, cocoa and vanilla alongside tightly knit tannins and the heat of evident alcohol and lengthy finish.

The Ennio Sagrantino possesses all the distinctive traits that have made this type of wine famous around the world: it is a rich, powerful wine, but it also amazes you with its approachable style. It reveals an elegant rounded profile that surprises us by re-proposing the historic grape variety of Montefalco in a brand-new version.

After a period of experimentation Valentino Valentini, the owner of the estate, picked out – together with his brother Antonello and their enologist Emiliano Falsini – the finest bunches (those that were particularly ripe) in order to set them aside to make Ennio.

Following strict selection in the vineyard and picking by hand, the grapes were fermented with their indigenous yeasts and then underwent maceration in open wooded vats where, each day, the cap was punched down by hand by Ennio Valentini (Valentino and Antonello’s father).

The fermentation and maceration in wood, together with manual punching down of the cap, help make this wine elegant, rounded and full of character.

The Ennio Selection matured for two years in oak barrels and then for a further two years in bottle before being released onto the market.

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