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Produced in the Marche province of Macerata, Vernaccia di Serrapetrona Dolce DOCG is primarily made from Vernaccia Nero grapes and sometimes has some Sangiovese and Ciliegiolo added. These rare and unique red sparkling wines can be made in form dry secco or semisweet to sweet dolce as is the case with this wine. These wines undergo three fermentations that result in its spumante [read more ... click on the photo]

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Color garmet red, clear with good effervescenze. The aroma is complex enough of rose and wilted violet, large cherries from Pistoia and strawberry. Lighty spicy of chocolate. In the mouth it is sweet, warm enough, fresh and plesantly fizzy. At the end it fades on sweet and ripe fruit. Bavarian mousse with fruits of the forest.

Location: Colleluce vineyards, planted in 1970, 20.00 Ha
Alcohol content: 11.5% - 12%
Percentage of dessicated grapes: from 55% to 60%
Froth Time: 8/9 months
Pairings: Ideal for pastry cakes dry, sparkling wine can be good meditation
Serving temperature: 8 ° - 10 ° C
Standard Packaging: 0.75 liter - 1.5 liter Magnum

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Colli di Serrapetrona was established in 1998 after a meeting of ten businessmen willing to produce wine thanks to the use of Black Vernaccia’s vine. After the purchase of some plots of land, the first vines were planted in the year 2000 and the last ones in 2002 for a total of twenty hectares. The wine cell was built In the year 2003: it hosted the first wine bottled by the Company. The land plots are located near the wine cells, at an altitude of 500-550 meters above the sea-level.

Since the beginning, the Company intends to give new life to Black Vernaccia: an ancient, precious vine, cultivated since ever in this hills. Today, the Company rediscovered the great potential that the wines produced with Black Vernaccia have. Modern techniques of wine production processes are used and there is a continue research on vines that is applied without forgetting tradition.
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