NV TerraQuilia SanRose Zero Rosato dell’Emilia

Region: Emilia-Romagna < Italy Grapes: Sangiovese Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Certified organic farming; limestone/clay soils; short maceration on skin in steel tanks, spontaneous fermentation without temperature control, re-fermented in bottle with ancestral method aging on yeasts for 15 months and disgorgement after this; no added So2; zero-zero; 11% ABV Winemaker: Romano Mattioli Located in the Apennines mountains between Modena and Bologna, the Terraquilia estate has always practiced organic farming and natural winemaking, way before it was a thing.  It’s just the way it was always done in Romano Mattioli’s family. You find this a lot in Italy - organic/low intervention was the old way, before all the modern crap was introduced, and many never deviated from these traditions.   As a result, his wines are not the cloyingly sweet, mass-produced, carbon dioxide-injected wines so often found in the somewhat industrial region of Emilia Romagna. These are real wines that are dry, complex an