Agri Segretum

Todi DOC Marmocchio

The Marmocchio clocks in the same but is on a whole other planet. A truly unique wine that is hard to describe, dense with oily minerality, mountain herbs, and scaffolded by Sagrantino’s notorious tannins and heady notes of pine resin. The wine tastes as if it was made for bears, elaborated with endless notes of wild bush berries and tamarind and sous bois and wild dill and mace. Complexity for days. And black-bear-burly at 15%. This is Homer’s wine-dark sea in the glass, gorgeously structure with velvet Elvis tannins and a sci-fi galaxy of unfamiliar, ripe, dark dark dark berries. This is natural wine’s answer for that 90-day dry aged rib eye.

Marmocchio translates into “rascal” in Italian. Created from the Brunello clone of Sangiovese, Sangiovese Grosso and crowned with 15% Sagrantino (that shows up as if 50%!), this wine is picked carefully from vineyard rows 110-148. Sagrantino (Umbria’s indigenous ancient grape) and Sangiovese Grosso grapes reach full maturity at different times of harvest, so the two varieties are picked and fermented independently. Alcoholic fermentation by maceration and extraction occur in stainless steel tanks over a 30-day period. Therein, Lorenzo and his sons perform manual follatura (punch downs) three-times per day for even and intense extraction, which will be tamed in barrel and bottle, giving the wine the legs to go the distance. After fermentation the wine is pressed to French oak 500 liter tonneaux for 18 months, then rested in bottle for several years before release.

2018 vintage (current release): 3169 bottles produced.