Description
VARIETY: Lambrusco Salamino
VINEYARD: Sourced from 15 hectares of vines at the cru of ‘Cristo’ di Sorbara. Sorbara is the most suitable area for the production of this vine as it is the narrowest strip of land between the two rivers Secchia and Panaro that run through the province of Modena.
VITICULTURE: Hand-harvested. Regarding farming practices, the winery says, "I would call it sustainable. In good years they are organic and just using a little copper sulf. in accordance with the organic ruling in Europe. However, for really difficult vintages they may have to fall back on some higher QTYs of copper sulf. ...In the last 10 years they only had 2 vintages that were challenging in this way."
VINIFICATION: Macerated in contact with the skins for two days. Alcoholic fermentation and refermentation using the Martinotti (aka Charmat) method.
AGING: Aged briefly in the bottle before its release.
NOTES: The Lambrusco di Sorbara DOC requires that producers plant the Salamino grape alongside the Lambrusco di Sorbara grape in about a one to three ratio. Lambrusco di Sorbara has a flowering disorder that often keeps it from self-pollenating. Salamino is planted alongside it to act as the pollinator. For this reason, many Lambrusco di Sorbara wines have both Lambrusco di Sorbara and Salamino in the blend (up to 40% is allowed). Paltrinieri prefers their Lambrusco di Sorbara wines to be 100% Lambrusco di Sorbara variety and so they also make a 100% Salamino wine, the Solco, to make sure of the Salamino grapes. "Solco" translates to "furrow" and signifies to them the idea of leaving a mark after having done someting positive.