Scubla
Scubla
Biography
Roberto Scubla’s estate was founded in 1991 at Ipplis di Premariacco in the Colli Orientali of Friuli appellation. The founder decided to add new vineyards to the older ones which already existed, reaching an overall total of thirty acres of vines. The vineyards are all situated on the slopes of a sunny, rolling hillside in the southern part of the Colli Orientali DOC, an area of wines of great harmony and fragrance. It is the soil, together with technology and human experience and know-how which characterizes the zone and its wines. It consists almost entire of a marl known locally as “ponca”, rich in micro-elements and salts, which easily flakes under the influence of sun and rain. Thanks to this marl, the grapes can express all that they have, their varietal character, their rich aromas, and their body. The limited production enables the estate to give maximum attention and care to each and every phase of operations, from the harvest to the fermentation; in this way Scubla has managed to reach his objective of offering the public quality in all of his wines, both the regular bottlings to the more prestigious offerings, both produced with the same commitment and dedication. Three Scubla wines are the most famous, a red and two whites, each of great personality. The Rosso Scuro, a Colli Orientali DOC which blends Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, is an intense ruby red with aromas of red fruit and spice, full and ample in body, long and velvety; it is excellent with important meat dishes and game. The Bianco Pomedes, also an appellation wine, blends Pinot Blanc with smaller percentages of Tocai Friulano and Riesling, and is fermented and aged in oak. A complex and fragrant wine. A straw yellow with golden highlights, it is ample on the nose, fruity and aromatic, tasty and structured in flavor and fine with fish. The Verduzzo Friulano Cratis, Colli Orientali DOC, perhaps the most unusual wine of the estate, is made from grapes dried on straw mats, pressed and then fermented in French oak barriques. Amber in color, sweet and concentrated with notes of dried apricots, figs, nuts, and citrus fruit, it is suave and inviting on the palate and very long. It goes well with blue cheese, even if it is an excellent wine for sipping and meditation as well.
Sergio Mottura
Sergio Mottura
Biography
The Mottura estate, owned by the Mottura family since 1933, extends over 325 total acres in an area rich in natural resources located between the hillsides and clay erosion furrows of Civitella d’Agliano and the plain of Umbria, watered by the Tiber river not far from the city of Orvieto. The viticultural potential of the zone was already noted in 1292, when the cadastral registers of Orvieto defined it is one of the finest for the production of the famed wine of the city. The process of modernization and transformation of the estate began in the 1960’s, sharecropping giving way to the use of salaried manpower, research intensifying in order to identify the plots to be cultivated with grapes capable of giving products of real quality. Operating with this philosophy, the primary objective was to give special attention to local grape varieties, particularly Grechetto, and to work with the methods and criteria of biological agriculture, as has been done for the last fourteen years.
There are other varieties, however, cultivated in addition to Grechetto, three clones of which have been identified on the estate, grapes with rich, heady, and persistent aromas, vigorous and ample in body: Procanico, a variety with well spaced berries on its bunches, very resistant to mould, golden in color, and low-yielding; Verdello, with a compact bunch of dark green color, excellent acidity, and an elegant fragrance; Drupeggio, floral in aroma and velvety in body; Chardonnay, used for a classic sparkling wine; Merlot, Montepulciano, and Pinot Noir, red grapes which often find here ideal conditions for important wines. It is the wines produced with these varieties which have attained the widest recognition both nationally and internationally. Particularly the two finest crus, both 100% Grechetto, the Latour a Civitella, golden yellow in color, elegant in aromatic impact, complex with notes of white fruit, citrus fruit, butter, and hazelnuts, full-bodied, soft, and pleasurably fresh with fruit and vanilla on the finish. And Poggio della Costa, very pleasurable on the nose, ample and fruity both in aroma and on the palate, fresh and persistent, long and lightly tannic on the close.