Wine List Casale Certosa Santa Palomba | Roma | Lazio

wine list Casale Certosa Santa Palomba | Roma | Lazio

Casale Certosa is 25 kilometers south of Rome, in the volcanic Colli Albani, an area known culturally as Castelli Romani. In the 1960s, the brothers Antonio and Fausto Cosmi began restoring the existing post-medieval casale (farmhouse) and medieval certosa (Carthusian monastery). In 2000, they began bottling the wine from the surrounding eight hectares of vineyards. Most of the 20.000 bottle production goes fermentations are with native yeasts and there’s little added sulfur or magnesium, and chalk. The unique soil imprint comes through clearly with the transparent Trebbiano Giallo, lending it a compelling mineral

Trebbiano Giallo gives the blueprint for the soil here, the Malvasia

Nadia Verrua’s family have been making wines in the hills of hectares of vines planted with local grape varieties and around the same amount of land dedicated to hazelnuts, which are very good too.Things have always been done properly here and it shows. The fruit comes from healthy vines planted on soft, sandy slopes and the resulting wines are pretty and perfumed.In the ‘cantina’ the wines are fermented cement. The idea is not to add too much, not to take away, and the resulting wines are joyful and delicious, a pleasure to drink.

The Ternavasio family wrote the history of these hills. Sergio is a guru of vineyards and a purist of winemaking. He stills makes everything alone, spending night and day between vineyard and cellar and his years ago. The wines of Sergio Ternavasio are traditional, you can feel in them the life mood of people from Langhe. Arneis is an explosion of dried fruit, Dolcetto and Nebbiolo the memories of farmer tradition, Barbera the real strong “sword”, perfect introduction to his wonderful Barbaresco, a showstopper with the tannins of Barolo and the typical silk of Barbaresco. Nature, tradition and experience. This is Ternavasio.

Moscato DOCG 2015 18,90 € 100% Moscato White | Sparkling Charmat Sweet | Alc.6,0% Arneis Langhe IGT 2016 21,90 € 100% Arneis White | Still | Alc.12,0%

Sergio Germano, whose winery is a few minutes walk north of Serralunga, completed six years of study at the School of Enology in Alba, then made wine for a few years at Fontanafredda, one of the larger wineries in the area, before returning to the family estate in 1993. The winery is still named after Ettore, Sergio’s father, who grew grapes, made a little wine for private customers, and was known throughout the area for his skill in grafting vines. Sergio Germano is just such a winemaker, and his Serralunga Barolos will never be creamy, international-style wines. Great wine is always made in

of his wife Elena and a small crew. Some of the wines are 100% traditional, made with long macerations and big barrels, and some are made with medium-sized barrels or barriques, but they all express the best of these local grape varieties. Germano’s Barolo and red wine vineyards are all in the commune of Serralunga, in the south-east corner of the Barolo appellation. The vineyards are at about 350 meters above sea level. The soils here are rich in limestone, clay, and sand; they tend to produce wines with more structure than those of the western half of the Barolo appellation (around the villages of Barolo and La Morra), this is particularly true of Nebbiolo. The Barolo Lazzarito in Sergio's words: 'The grapes are harvested into small boxes when fully ripe, but not over-ripe. After going through the crusher-stemmer the wine is fermented for 35-40 days on the skins, then aged for 30 months in barrels of 2,000L. It is released on the market after a further two years. The vineyard is very old (planted in 1931) but still vigorous and in very good health, and it gives a very elegant wine of great power, combining the structure of an outstanding site with the

combine with the aromas of brown spices and licorice. In the mouth, the

suggests that it would go well with various red meats or cheese, as well as

Barolo Lazzarito Riserva 2009 75,00 € 100% Nebbiolo Red | Still | Alc.13,0% Aged 3 years in barrels Az. Agricola Monteforche Zovon Di Vò, Colli Euganei | Padova | Veneto

grows with unbelievable passion, skill and love are at the highest peak of Colli Euganei, on a vulcanic terroir that gives the wine an unmistakable acidity and cleanliness. Alfonso works 100% natural with vines and in the cellar. His wines taste of pure grape but without any bad smell: his wines are art. His Cabernet Franc and Carmenere are Total Wines, like the Holland of '74 or like a top class Pinot Noir: ready to drink, good sourness with easy food, perfect body and length for full taste meat, and also a joyful company for a drink with friends. When you try a glass from Monteforche, you always will drink another one.The wines by Alfonso are human wines.

Rif (Prosecco) 2016 18,50 € 100% Glera White | Sparkling in bottle | Alc.11,0%

Cabernet Franco 2015 22,50 € 100% Cabernet Franc Red | Still | Alc.14,0% Cement vats Weingut Gottardi Mazzon | Bolzano | Trentino

When you think about italian Pinot Noir, you think about the Mazzon terroir. Bruno and his son Alexander Gottardi comes from a 100 years old wine sale tradition family but they started cultivating their

1995, their Blauburgunder has been considered one of the top of Südtirol. This is a whole masterpiece, a wine with perfect balance that will never let you down. You know what you drink when you drink the top italian Pinot Noir: this is Gottardi.

Mazzon DOC 41,00 € Blauburgunder Südtiroler Blauburgunder 2013 100% Pinot Noir Red |Still | Alc.11,0% Aged 1 year in french barriques.

Parker 93/00 Veronelli 3 stars 90/00 90/00 Espresso 3 bottles Gambero rosso 3 glasses Great wine slowine Gaspare Buscemi Enologo Viniﬁcatore Artigiano Cormoni | Gorizia | Friuli Venezia Giulia

From the lengthy relationship with Italian vine-growers and from this special experience, Gaspare Buscemi began his professional life with a dedication to natural and traditional oenology. He has always strived to distinguish "artisan wines" as wines that are an expression of nature and the thousand-year old farming and artisan culture of our lands, knowing that it would bring notoriety to artisan vine-growers, and all Italian wines, as top quality wines. “I have been dedicating my commitment to the recovery of this farming and artisan culture for many years, acting as an unconverted enologist and as an artisan winemaker, because the future of Italian wine-making and

stems, depends on this. Nowadays, through my wines, I claim and propose the image of the artisan wines as a new and open solicitation for normative directives aimed at supporting the wines expressing it. A wine which is made 'by hand' just as it was in the past with human rather than machine expertise and natural, artisan wine making procedures. An enology, which does not resort to substances extraneous to the quality heritage of the grapes and which limits the use of sulphur dioxide because it is capable of

characterisation. An enology which guarantees quality because it checks, packages and delivers every single bottle only after a long stay in the bottling facility, an indispensable stay in order to verify the perfect sealing of the stopper, necessarily in whole cork, and the evolution of its quality. An enology such as the one that made the great wines great long before the industrial age.

Perle D' Uva Fondo...In Fondo 2011 21,50 € Pinot Sauvignon Friulano Malvasia Verduzzo Ribolla Gialla White | Still | Alc.12,0%

Perle D' Uva 2014 Magnum 1,5 lt 39,00 € Pinot Sauvignon Friulano Malvasia Verduzzo Ribolla Gialla White | Still | Alc.11,5% 26,50 €

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75,50 € Francesco Marra Ugento | Lecce | Puglia

Finding Salento on a map is easy. You can’t miss it. It’s the narrow peninsula set between the Adriatic and Ionian seas in the one million inhabitants and eleven million olive trees. Not to mention grapevines, which in Salento usually means one of two local varieties:Negroamaro and Primitivo.

Francesco Marra cultivates are grape vines and olive trees. Ired soil rich in clay, iron and potassium, in a location where long periods of high temperatures and relentless drought stress the vine just enough to allow it to express itself in deep, complex, salty red wines, full of the was a boy: he started with making conventional industrial wines, then he left and concentrated only on agricolture but, after more than ten years, the wine calling was too loud. He bought two old wood vats for fermentation and started to make

Trying the wines, you can understand why the future is on his side.

Negroamaro 2015 Rosso Salento IGT 28,50 € 100% Negroamaro Red | Still | Alc.15,5% Cantina Barbera Men | Agrigento | Sicily

culture, bright sunshine and a fresh cooling breeze. Proprietor and winemaker Marilena Barbera was reared in this garden of Eden, her family has been grape producers for three generations. She is a passionate woman, commitment to a sustainable viticulture that thoroughly respects the natural environment where she lives and works with her family and her many dogs. While she still grows the grapes that her father chose, Marilena embraces the regions grape varieties with vigor: Inzolia, Grillo, Perricone, Nerello, Alicante and Nero d’Avola, these are hers. Marilena Barbera’s white wines tend to have an unmatched vibrant, zestful salinity. The mild winters and warm dry summers paired with the intense temperature ranges between night and day impart tasty ripe berries with a touch of sweetness which smell of the land and sea. Marilena uses only indigenous yeast for fermentation. The wines have

wines.

La Bambina - Nero d'Avola 2017 21,50 € 100% Nero d’Avola Rosè | Still | Alc.12,0%

Lu Còri - Nero d'Avola 2016 19,50 € 100% Nero d’Avola Red | Still| Alc.13,0%

Ti Vitti - Inzolia 2017 100% Inzolia 19,50 € White | Still | Alc.12,5%

Ciatu Numero 3 2016 100% Alicante 23,90 € Red | Still | Alc.13,5%

Microcosmo 90% Perricone 10% Nerello 24,90 € Red | Still | Alc.13,0%

Coda della Foce 2011 100% Nero d’Avola 33,50 € Red | Still | Alc.14,0%

Coste al vento 2017 22,90 € 100% Grillo White | Still | Alc.13,0% Azienda Agricola Pippìa Baratili San Pietro | Oristano | Sardegna

Late harvest, long fermentations, vats. Three words to identify the work of the Pippìa brothers, in Baratili, near Oristano, in Sardinia. Stefano and Carlo produce young Vernaccia and aged Vernaccia in very old chestnut barrels. Most of the production is sold in Baratili, unbottled. A small part is bottled and sent to very few restaurants and wine shops, in the world.

Vernaccia 2017 22,50 € 100% Vernaccia di Oristano White | Still | Alc.13,5% One year in ancient chestnut barrels Vernaccia 2016 23,50 € 100% Vernaccia di Oristano White | Still | Alc.13,5% One year in ancient chestnut barrels Vernaccia 2011 29,50 € 100% Vernaccia di Oristano White | Still | Alc.16% One year in ancient chestnut barrels Bressan Mastri Vinai Farra D' Isonzo | Gorizia | Friuli Venezia Giulia

are more than all these words.Bressan works in the most natural way:

the vineyards farming to the labelling. Fulvio Bressan doesn't care about any commercial rule: he just wants to produce unforgettable wines, always elegant but with strong and unique personality. These are wines for who wants to understand, not only to accept. His wines are all from long macerations and fermentations, and the grapes express their soul at the highest level

unavoidable key of Bressan winemaking style. He's a farmer and an artist, often not loved because of his strong personality but considered by all the experts one of the World's best vignerons.

Pignolo 2001 Venezia Giulia IGT 79,50 € 100% Pignolo Red | Still | Alc.13,0% Second fermentation in barriques, two years in oak casks

Schioppettino Isonzo del Friuli DOC 2001 46,90 € 100% Schioppetino Red | Still | Alc.13,0% Two years in oak casks Damijan Podversic Gorizia | Friuli Venezia Giulia

On mount Calvario, a young Damijan Podversic foundsome old, abandoned vines and he started to buy up some small plots of land. He knew that something good was there, in that sad and windy mountain on which so many wars were fought. Today, after more than twenty years, from these vineyard he makes the most of his wines and he became Damijan Podversic one of the main protagonists of the amazing wine scene on the border between

abandoned vineyards. He knew that something special was there. Damijan Podversic started out in the family business as a negociant. But when he found a small abandoned plot in the Collio Goriziano, eagerly bought it. He cleared the land, rebuilt terraces, and set to replanting it: not only does he now cultivate top-quality grapes, but his once skeptical neighbors eye his steep mountaintop vineyard with great envy. Podversic’s work in the cellar is no less daring and no less successful. the use of stainless steel, Damijan pursues natural winemaking, which he learned from the great Joško Gravner.

Nekaj IGT Venezia Giulia 2011 42,50 € 100% Tocai Friulano White | Still | Alc.15,5% 90 days fermentation on skins, 2 years aging in wood barrels, 6 months in bottle Azienda Agricola Ancarani Oriolo dei Fichi | Faenza | Emilia Romagna

Claudio Ancarani is a true winemaker. Imaginative and dreamer, but spends most of his time. He inherited the passion for wine and the vineyard from his grandfather, who cultivated these lands from the 60s, and became custodian of this land . The link with the land is easily discernible in its wines, typical and with an extremely artisanal cut, each bottle can be said to walk under his hands, before leaving the winery. The grape harvest is manual, trying to reduce to a minimum the use of sulphites and as treatments employing only copper and sulfur.

Signore 2016 21,90 € 100% Famoso White | Still | Alc.13,0%

Pignoletto 2016 19,90 € 100% Merlot White | Still | Alc.12,5%

Biagio Antico 2015 20,90 € 100% Sangiovese Red | Still | Alc.12,5%

Oriolo 2015 24,90 € 100% Sangiovese Red | Still | Alc.13,0%

Centesimino Sauvignon Rosso 2016 24,50 € 100% Centesimino Red | Still | Alc.14,0% La Busatina San Martino Sul Fiora | Grosseto | Tuscany

La Busattina, an all-round farm, 25 hectares located in the hilly inland part of the Maremma Tuscany. Here Emilio Falcione dedicates 4 and a half hectares to grapes, while in the rest of his land he produces olive oil, cultivates cereals of ancient varieties and raises cattle of old breeds in danger of extinction. Emilio Falcione has found here the right place in which to realize his own projects of a different agriculture: a deeply and radically biodynamic farm. Only Tuscan grapes have found their place at La Busattina: Sangiovese, Ciliegiolo, Trebbiano, Malvasia, Ansonica. Emilio Falcione says of his own wines:".... my wine is a creature that I helped to be born, like a son, but like a child it is an independent being, which I can guide, try to correct, but never dominate completely. A creature with its own independent life, its own character and identity, which only partially I (but also others) understand and know..."

San Martino 210 2016 22,50 € Trebbiano 75% Malvasia 20% Ansonica 5% White | Still | Alc.13,5%

Legnotorto 2013 21,50 € 100% Sangiovese Red | Still | Alc.13,5%

Terre Eteree 2011 22,50 € Sangiovese 85% Ciliegiolo 15% Red | Still | Alc.12,5%

Oriolo 2015 24,90 € 100% Sangiovese Red | Still | Alc.13,0%

Ciliegiolo 2008 Magnum 1,5 Lt. 74,00 € 100% Ciliegiolo Red | Still | Alc.13,5%