Agri Segretum

Todi DOC Pottarello

The Pottarello is gracefully poised, suggestive of excellent Chianti but with slightly rounder tannins, a touch broader acidity, and a slightly more sun-drenched fruit profile, buoyed by a generous 15% body that it carries with remarkable ease.

Pottarello translates into “little kid” in Umbrian dialect. It is a blend of several smaller berry’d phenotypes of Sangiovese (80%) with Malvasia Nera (10%) and Colorino (10%). These Sangiovese biotypes with particularly thin tight clusters and much smaller berries than those of its more common Sangiovese siblings make for a higher skin to juice ratio in the fermentation, translating into more color and a denser darker fruit profile, as if poetically invoking the very look of these denser Sangiovese clusters.

The wine undergoes alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks and remains in contact with skins for about 3 weeks, during which time Lorenzo and his sons perform the classic manual follatura (punch downs). After separation from the skins, the finished wine is transferred into French Oak 500L tonneaux where it ages for 12 months before resting another nine months in bottle. Classified as Todi DOC Rosso, Pottarello is the very essence of the appellation.

2021 vintage (current release): 6,546 bottles produced.