Wines

Ribelà is a dialect term used in Monte Porzio Catone which means "to cover" – ribelare - the newly planted vines with earth. Hilling the land around the vine symbolizes a new beginning as well as continuous care and renewal. This white wine, immediately separated from the skins, represents the most direct and clearest expression of soil minerality, which translates into mineral flavours in wine.

Ribelà is a dialect term used in Monte Porzio Catone which means "to cover" – ribelare - the newly planted vines with earth. Hilling the land around the vine symbolizes a new beginning as well as continuous care and renewal. Without excessive maceration, soil minerality binds to the freshness of fruit and the Mediterranean scrub in this wine.

Rosé wines were not traditional in Castelli Romani, so unlike other wines with names in dialect, we decided to give this new wine (like Soyl) an English-speaking name. RaW becomes the composition of the initials of "Red and White" and is the result of a blend of Ribelà and Rossé. Put in liter bottles, it is a raw and simple wine, designed for pouring.

Soyl is an invented term that combines "Soul" and "Soil"... "The soul of the soil", which replace Garbagorba, is a rosè made from Cesanese and Malvasia grapes, fermented and pressed together. The idea comes from the arrival in the cellar of the tank in local hand-carved peperino and from the desire to work with the only two grapes from which we make single-variety wines: Pentima and Ferrigno.

Saittole comes from "sagitte" - the arrows in Latin, and in Frascati they were called "le marze", the vine shoots that were cut to be planted or grafted. This wine was created to be part of the Frascati tradition, that is a wine with different types of grapes. This is the reason why we liked the idea of saittole ... that is, the exchange of vine shoots that has always taken place in history, giving life to several biotypes and wines, in many contexts.

Ferrigno is one of the names once given to the Cesanese biotype grown in the Castelli Romani, before the bizarre decision - the PDO in 1966 - to make our area known only for white wines. It is a very special "common" Cesanese of which we produced few bottles in 2014. The same variety was then grafted, re-expanded and planted in a new field in 2017.

Pentima comes from the name of the valley where we are located, found on historical maps: Pentima dei frati. According to the Treccani dictionary pèntima (or pèndima) noun (from medieval Latin, pentoma, of pre-Latin origin) is “a local name given to sloping land on the banks of the volcanic lakes of the Alban Hills, near Rome.” The wine is made from grapes of a small plot - since1958 - on a more "red" and clayey soil than usual. 

Ribolie is a name that contains several words in one: Ribelà, bubble and lie - yeast in French. In addition, in our area fermentation is called "bollitura", then ri-bollitura, as wine is refermented in the bottle. Traditionally, there has always been a sparkling wine, the Romanella, in both dry and sweet versions, to be combined with the typical fatty foods of the so-called fraschetta: porchetta, coppiette, cold cuts, etc.

We produced this wine from 2015 to 2021.

Garbagorba literally means "the fox" – gorba- "likes" - garba -, and it is a story that some winemakers of the Castelli used to tell. It is about a particular type of white grapes, which turned red for a short time, and then returned white again. For this reason, it was also called gabbagorba - "fox trickery". We liked the idea of using this name for a rosé wine that comes from Cesanese grafted upon old Malvasia plants. The wine - three "damigiana"/ 200 bottles in total - was produced from 2016 to 2020. 

Magnum of 3 liters produced in 2017 to celebrate the construction of new cellar.