Umani Ronchi
Umani Ronchi Pelago 2021
| Denomination | Marche IGT |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.0% by volume |
| Area | Marche (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 50% Montepulciano, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot |
| Aging | Once the malolactic fermentation has taken place, the wine is transferred to 225 litre oak barrels for ageing, for a period of 14 months. After bottling, Pelago is left to age further, in a temperature‐controlled environment, for about 12 months. |
| Year | 2021 |
| Biologic | Sì |
| Product name | Pelago 2021 |
| Color | Deep ruby. |
| Perfume | Great aromatic selection of small berries, and withered violets, together with clean vegetal notes of cinchona bark, laurel, and camphor with Sichuan pepper, cloves, and Cuban tobacco. |
| Taste | An elegant taste with soft fresh balance, silky tannins, and the tasty dynamism that drives the long fruity and finely spicy notes. |
| Pairings | A perfect match for red meat, game, and aged cheese. |
| Region | Marche |
| Country | Italy |
Description
Pelago joined the list of the most sought-after Italian wines in the world in 1997, with its first year of production, when it won the Best Red Wine trophy at the International Wine Challenge in London. Pelago is the result of the insight of the Umani Ronchi technical group, who had the idea of mating Montepulciano with Cabernet Sauvignon. It is a wine which retains the style and personality of the indigenous grapes while broadening its aromatic profile and complexity by adding qualities of the Bordeaux style of wine.
Awards
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2021
92/100
James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.
Details
Perfume
Color
Taste
Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour
Pairings
- Start up year: 1955
- Oenologist: Giacomo Mattioli, Beppe Caviola
- Bottles produced: 2.900.000
- Hectares: 210
Since the 1990s, Massimo Bernetti has been flanked by his son Michele (in the photo) in the Company's management. After creating wines appreciated worldwide, renovating the vineyards and restructuring the large winery in Osimo, Massimo still needs to be satisfied and stubbornly maintains the imperative of a high-quality product. As a result, it is a matter of agronomic experimentation, vineyard care and adopting the most advanced cultivation and vinification techniques.
In recent years, the increased interest in wines produced in the neighbouring region of Abruzzo has prompted Umani Ronchi SpA to purchase, in 2002, a 30-hectare estate in the Colline Teramane, a sub-region dedicated to the Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC, which has been awarded the prestigious DOCG status. Here, in the evocative farmhouse that dominates the estate, full of vineyards, a vinification cellar will be built in addition to the existing ageing cellar.
Currently, the Company's vineyard property includes a total area of 210 hectares spread over 12 distinct plots with unique characteristics, respecting and enhancing the terroir and native grape varieties of Marche and Abruzzo. In addition, there is sufficient research into some of the most representative international grape varieties, such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, for the creation of innovative wines to be compared with the world's most excellent
The most resounding result of so much passion is the Pèlago vintage 1994, winner of the prestigious International Wine Challege in London in 1997 and included by Wine Enthusiast magazine in its list of the top one hundred wines of the year 1998 with the very high score of 97/100.
Umani Ronchi S.p.A. has achieved great results and can boast of authoritative recognitions won above all with its products of excellence but also with more widely consumed wines. Read more
| Name | Umani Ronchi Pelago 2021 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red green still |
| Denomination | Marche IGT |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.0% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 50% Montepulciano, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Marche |
| Vendor | Umani Ronchi |
| Origin | Osimo (Ancona) |
| Climate | Altitude: 100 50 m. a.s.l. Exposure: South-East. |
| Soil composition | Very deep and chalky clay loam. |
| Yield per hectare | 5‐7 tons. |
| Harvest | By hand, with the grapes picked and transported in crates. It starts at the beginning of September for the Merlot, continues at the end of the same month with the Cabernet Sauvignon, and ends with the Montepulciano, a rather late variety, in October, when the grapes have reached an excellent and advanced degree of phenolic ripening. |
| Wine making | The grapes are destalked and gently crushed, then fermented at 27‐29°C in steel fermentation tanks, with the cap submerged, for 14‐15 days on natural yeasts. |
| Aging | Once the malolactic fermentation has taken place, the wine is transferred to 225 litre oak barrels for ageing, for a period of 14 months. After bottling, Pelago is left to age further, in a temperature‐controlled environment, for about 12 months. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |