SADIFRUTTIROSSIJournal
Notes fromthe glass.
Sa di Frutti Rossi is Marco’s column on Romagna wine for CesenaToday: stories of native grapes, small producers and bottles worth knowing, translated here from the original Italian.
2024
- 21 Mar 2024Fifty shades of Burson: the Romagna you don’t expect in the glassOnly a few local wineries grow this grape, but its wine is excellent, with a bold, exuberant character — just like ours, true-blooded Romagnoli.
- 22 Feb 2024Cà di Sopra’s Romagna Merlot: a Champions League wineMerlot is one of the best-known grapes in the world. Its homeland is Pomerol, near Bordeaux, in France.
- 8 Feb 2024Blanc de Noirs: a sparkling wine from black grapes, in Romagna tooRomagna’s classic-method sparklers still have room to grow, but I promise you can already impress your guests by pairing a local bottle with one of your specialities.
- 18 Jan 2024A superstar Trebbiano Romagnolo “born” in PiedmontToday Sadifruttirossi tells a story that sounds almost like a fairy tale: Stefano Bariani at the court of Angelo Gaja in Barbaresco.
2023
- 7 Dec 2023“Vineyards above the badlands”: a lunar landscape for out-of-this-world winesIn this magnificent area, on the Bagnolo hill — the highest between Castrocaro Terme and Terra del Sole — in a place that looks like a lunar amphitheatre, stands Marta Valpiani.
- 23 Nov 2023The holidays are coming: a skin-contact wine for Romagna’s traditional cappelletti in brothToday Sadifruttirossi pairs a lovely glass of wine with a steaming bowl of cappelletti in broth, a Romagna tradition.
- 9 Nov 2023A breath of change in the cellars of San Patrignano“If pioneering still means anything, in this territory we have worked like perhaps nowhere else, taking on a Bordeaux blend to show a unique identity.”
- 26 Oct 2023“Horoscopes and planetary alignments” of a fine biodynamic Romagna wineParide Benedetti, owner of Tenuta Santa Lucia in Mercato Saraceno, likes to tell his team and his customers: “Wines speak of us, of our land and of our work.”
- 13 Oct 2023Elegance and quality in the glass: a “revolutionary” Romagna wine“Today being revolutionary means taking away rather than adding, slowing down rather than speeding up, valuing silence.”
- 29 Sep 2023The Romagna of wine you don’t expect: noble rot on our tablesIn a world that rushes ever faster and often forgets nature’s rhythms, Tenuta il Plino respects its “slow pace” — and above all, its wines only exist when conditions are at their best…
- 14 Sep 2023A top-marks Sangiovese di Romagna? “Yes sir… General”The grapes for this wonderful Sangiovese will be picked in the first week of October, but I can tell you now that 2023 won’t be a generous vintage: too many events and factors will add up to a lean harvest…
- 31 Aug 2023The usual Franciacorta? No thanks — try sparkling wine made in RomagnaMore and more Romagna estates have made, and are making, big investments and big strides with the classic method, using Romagna’s own native grapes.
- 10 Aug 2023A “craft” wine and a breathtaking view: the story of Mauro and his Primo SegnoToday Sadifruttirossi takes you to discover a dream come true, thanks to the stubbornness and immense effort the Giardini family put into “bottling” it.
- 20 Jul 2023A quality wine with no shortcuts: discovering “Pietramora”Today Sadifruttirossi takes you to taste “Pietramora”, the finest expression of Sangiovese according to Fattoria Zerbina.
- 6 Jul 2023A surprising white wine born in a land of great redsIn 1980 Claudio Drei Donà gave up the law to devote himself full-time to the estate. Later joined by his son Enrico, he began a radical transformation that marked a decisive turning point.
- 22 Jun 2023In Romagna there’s a “Famoso” wine — and it isn’t Sangiovese or TrebbianoAmong Romagna’s native grapes, alongside Sangiovese, Trebbiano and Albana, there are lesser-known varieties that can amaze us and make us love our land even more.
- 8 Jun 2023Vigna delle Lepri: the wine President Pertini is said to have served ReaganThe very first single-varietal Sangiovese riserva made in Romagna.
- 4 May 2023A Romagna white with character for a great linguine with clamsAn organic wine (it doesn’t hurt) from the Colli Romagna Centrale DOC, grown on two hectares of alluvial soil full of pebbles and gravel on the left bank of the Savio river.