Maria Ernesta Berucci
Maria Ernesta Berucci "Raphael" Cesanese del Piglio, Lazio, Italy 2022
Maria Ernesta Berucci "Raphael" Cesanese del Piglio, Lazio, Italy 2022
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THE WINE: 100% Cesanese, fermented with wild yeasts and bottled unfined, unfiltered with no SO2.
THE PRODUCER: Maria Ernesta Berucci is a young woman from the gorgeous Hernican town of Piglio, about an hour southeast of Rome at the foot of the Apennine mountains. Vines have always been in her father's family, the Massimi Berucci, and at one time her father Manfredi owned as much as 30 hectares. In 2009, Maria and her brother decided it was time to revive the family's roots and produced a wine from this vineyard site called "l'Onda" (the wave) as it announced the next wave of winemakers in the Massimi family. Slowly they have been recuperating some of the family's historic parcels and renting other quality sites. Berucci is looking especially for old vines planted in Cesanese di affile, a strain which produces a noticeably smaller, less compact bunches than the vine known as Cesanese Commune. They now are working 2.5 hectares of vines.
