2017 Vini Conestabile della Staffa Umbria Rosso

Region: Umbria < Italy Grapes: Sangiovese Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming, de-stemmed, 4 day maceration on the skins before pressing and aging in fiberglass.  No sulfur. Winemaker: Danilo Marcucci Winemaker Danilo Marcucci brings wine and people together. He travels the length of Italy working as a consultant to several wineries, but instead of trying to leave his own stamp on each project he collaborates with the owners to maximize the expression of their own fruit and terroir (try to explain this one to the French!) Each wine has its own personality but uniquely represents its place and the people behind it. Luckily he married into a family, the Conestabile della Staffas, who happened to own a bit of land. This is a minor understatement as this noble Umbrian family formerly oversaw hundreds of acres of agriculture in the 1700s, producing over 10,000 hectoliters of wine. Production gradually declined and the two World Wars effectively ended it altogether with the last wine p