Motta del Lupo Cacc'e Mmitte | Lucera Petrilli

DENOMINATION: Cacc'e Mmitte di Lucera DOC

TYPE: red

GRAPES: Uva di Troia, Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Bombino Bianco

PROVENANCE: Puglia, Italy

AGEING POTENTIAL: 3 years

SERVING TEMPERATURE: 16-18° C

GLASS: baloon

ALCOHOL: 13% vol.

FORMAT: 75 cl

THE WINE

TECHNICAL SPECIFICS

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NOTES FROM OUR SOMMELIERS

👁 of a beautiful ruby red;

👃🏻 the nose expresses a fine and articulated olfactory spectrum: berries, raspberry, plum but also more evolved notes of cinnamon, cloves and basil;

👄 the sip is very drinkable, energetic, characterized by a beautiful freshness and pleasantness; it closes persistently.

FOOD PAIRINGS

Wine with a nice and never aggressive character: it gives its best opened half an hour beforehand. Perfect to be paired with white meat and for an unusual pairing, try it with rich fish dishes.

WINE-MAKING AND REFINEMENT

Blend of local grapes that grow on calcareous soils, 300 meters above sea level: Uva di Troia, Sangiovese, Montepulciano and Bombino Bianco, varieties that grow on calcareous soils, about 300 meters above sea level. The yields between the rows are contained, and the works in the vineyards follow organic agriculture. The grapes are softly pressed, and the must ferments in steel tanks for seven days. Ageing for six months in steel, followed by bottling.

YOU'LL LOVE IT FOR...

its character.

ORIGIN

TERROIR

We are in Lucera (which means "sacred" or "light"), in the province of Foggia. In the immense fields of the Tavoliere delle Puglie, among wheat, tomatoes and olive trees, the cultivation of vines plays a crucial role in the landscape and in the economy of the area.

Here the art of making wine has very ancient origins: the countryside between San Severo and Lucera is a land particularly suited to the cultivation of grapes thanks to the mild and breezy climate and the conformation of the territory in which the plain alternates with gentle slopes hilly.

The Cacc'e Mmitte di Lucera DOC is a denomination born in 1975 that covers the municipality of Lucera, and the nearby towns of Troia and Biccari, all at the foot of the southern Apennine mountains. The name of the appellation is attributed to the local tradition of pouring the wine directly from its barrel, filling it up after collection. The Cacc'e Mmite di Lucera DOC is a red wine produced from Troia grapes (the variety is also known locally under the name Sumarello), a vine almost unknown in Italy until a few years ago generally proposed with Malvasia Nera, Montepulciano and/or Sangiovese, Trebbiano Toscano, Bombino Bianco and/or Malvasia del Chianti.

San Severo DOC was the first appellation of Puglia. If the whole region is a land with a great winemaking tradition, one of the most important areas is precisely the province of Foggia, where bombino bianco, uva di Troia, montepulciano and falanghina are grown above all.

Bombino bianco, in particular, has been cultivated for a long time in Puglia, perhaps imported from Spain. The name derives from the shape of the bunch which would recall the shape of a child with outstretched arms. If instead the origin of the name comes from the Spanish, bombino would derive from "bovine", with the meaning of "good wine".

The vine is present in Puglia especially in the Foggia area, and is registered among the varieties suitable for the production of San Severo Doc.

WINERY

Paolo Petrilli imposes himself on the quality market with the company founded in 1990 in which locally grown tomatoes are transformed in an artisanal way and obtained from the recovery of native stocks, elsewhere supplanted by international varieties, because they are more productive.

Since 2002, Paolo has recovered the 11 hectares of vineyards on the property: Nero di Troia is the prevalent variety, then Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Aglianico, Bombino Bianco and Verdellino. In addition to tomatoes and grapes, it produces durum wheat, all grown organically.

La di lui is a winery that expresses great quality because the attention paid to the care of the vineyard and in the cellar is great. Its wines that express a unique terroir and a history of ancient traditions and full of authenticity.