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Velenosi Visciole Querci Antica 500ml
1596187*-od
$64.19 $62.39 price per bottle
In the past, sour cherry wine was used to make robust and tannic wines more pleasurable. Duke Federico da Montefeltro, according to his trusted biographer and librarian Vespasiano da Bisticci, “quasi non beveva vino se non de ciriege o de granate” (almost drank no wine, except for cherry or sour cherry wine). Afterwards this wine was regarded as a feminine wine, apt to honour the fair sex with its aromas, smoothness and roundness: today it is regarded as a meditation wine, to be savoured and tasted in someone’s company, rediscovering lost tastes. This wine is also called visciolato or, more often, vino di visciole. The Marche region tradition of aromatizing wine is an ancient tradition that, from the Middle Ages and aristocratic castles, through farmers’ wisdom, survived until today. Its region of choice is the area of the municipalities of Candiano and Pergola, in the surroundings of Pesaro, and the Castelli di Jesi, in the area of Ancona. The recipes for this wine significantly differ from place to place, from winery to winery. The basic ingredient for vino di visciole is sour cherry (visciola), an ancient wild cherry species (Prunus cerasus), a deep dark red and slightly sour cherry. Based on the traditional recipe, sour cherries are harvested – they ripen during the first weeks of July – and left to soak in sugar, partly whole and partly smashed. This product is then decanted for a few days and finally filtered. A syrup with a high concentration of sugar is thus obtained, which is then mixed with wine. This triggers a re-fermentation process combining the two different identities (wine and syrup). Fermentation stops when a 14 % alcohol content and the resulting residual sugar makes this product pleasant.
| Technical notes |
| Alcohol content: 14% |
| Food pairing |
| perfect with cherry and sour cherry tarts and pies. It can also be savoured as meditation wine or digestive to conclude a meal |
| Producer |
| Velenosi Ercole’s farm was established in 1984, thanks to the will of two young entrepreneurs, Angela and Ercole Velenosi. They have been operating in the wine sector for just a couple of decades, but their passion has allowed them to rapidly learn and improve their growing and winemaking techniques, create a winery with state-of-the-art and advanced equipment and produce excellent wines. In 2005 the company has strengthened its leading role in the Marche wine-producing industry after Paolo Garbini, a former businessman of the poultry-farming industry, joined the firm. Attilio Pagli is our wine-making consultant. |
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| Size: | 500 ml |
| Availability: | Currently Out of Stock |
| Distributed by: | IW |
