Fattoria di Lamole FATTORIA DI LAMOLE ANTICO LAMOLE LE VITI DI LIVIO 2016

Description

FATTORIA DI LAMOLE ANTICO LAMOLE LE VITI DI LIVIO is a wine in danger of extinction. Livio was the Farmer who, having arrived in Lamole in 1934, spent his entire life there working and as a self-taught scholar. Since then he has personally taken the buds from vines that survived the phylloxera and since 1974 he convinced Paolo Socci to replant the vineyards with free-root vines. Like a sort of mantra he repeated: “they have two bloods” meaning that the grafted vines somehow betrayed the original genetic characteristics that had made Lamole wine famous. This wine comes exclusively from ungrafted Sangioveto vines which today offer us a fruit of delicate rusticity. It is Paolo Socci’s homage to a simple and modest man who transmitted his love for the difficult viticulture of Lamole.

The Socci family is deeply linked to Lamole, a small village perched on the hills a few kilometers from Greve in Chinati. Starting in 2003, Paolo Socci took over the fortunes of the company and started a project to recover the historic vineyards and settlements of the Fattoria di Lamole.

Thus the restoration of the terraces with the ancient dry stone walls and the subsequent planting of new vineyards. All in function of the best possible agricultural practice without distorting the typical elements of the Lamola landscape. Paolo’s wines are highland wines: clear, transparent and irresistible. Subtle scents of wild flowers and a palate far from any technicality, but a faithful interpreter of the man who first of all dreamed of these wines and of the territory, that of Lamole, which has left its unmistakable mark on them.