“Orsus” began with the 2009 vintage thanks to the specific purpose of producing a SUPER Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

This wine is made through the combination of tradition (Montepulciano d’Abruzzo grapes) and innovation (‘appassimento’ technique).

Our family, rooted in the Valpolicella and with two-generations’ experience in the production of Amarone, decided to buy in 2003 the Fosso Corno estate in Roseto degli Abruzzi, a particularly appropriate area for making great red wines, devoting a part of the 30-hectares of the vineyards to the purpose to create the “Orsus” wine.

Nevertheless we didn’t copy the ‘appassimento technique’ as in the Amarone but decided to use a new one: the so-called ‘taglio del tralcio‘. This technique consists in cutting the vine shoots when the bunches are ripe and in leaving them hanging 20 days on the plant. At the end of this process, the natural flavours of the grapes are even more concentrated.

nce the grape is harvested and taken into our cellar, it starts a slow and temperature-controlled fermentation with a subsequent aging in French oak barrels.