Gamay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Canaiolo are also grown. With great reverence for the teachings of their father Vittorio, they began to bottle wines under their own label. In the late 1970s, brothers Ernesto and Remo turned their attention exclusively to winemaking. Sagrantino accounts for only about 250 acres of Umbria’s vineyards, and it grows nowhere else in Italy, one reason why Sagrantino has become something of a cult wine. The Sportoletti family has been passionately dedicated to producing wine in Umbria for generations. Towards the end of the 1970s, the brothers Ernesto and Remo, reaping the benefits of what their father Vittorio taught them, decided to dedicate themselves exclusively to wine production. After 15-20 days maceration on the skins, temperature controlled fermentation, the wine is refined in French oak cask for one year and then in bottle. The Sportoletti family, who have been farmers for generations, have always been passionately dedicated to wine production. Production vineyards lie at an altitude of 400m and have a medium consistency sandy type soil. But the unique red grape of Umbria is Sagrantino, a deep, dark grape that makes tannic, spicy wines. Villa Fidelia Rosso is a blend made from Merlot 70, Cabernet Sauvignon 20, and Cabernet Franc 10. Sangiovese is the dominant red grape, and it is used for blending. With the rise of the Lungarotti winery and several others, however, distinctive red wines have also become part of the Umbrian wine portfolio. Stores and prices for '2003 Sportoletti Villa Fidelia Rosso Umbria IGT' prices, stores, tasting notes and market data. Users have rated this wine 3.5 out of 5 stars. Orvieto blends often include the regional grapes Grechetto and Verdello, and may also include Trebbiano and Drupeggio. Ensure your merchant has the color you are looking for. Until the last decade or two, the white wines of Orvieto were Umbria’s best-known wines. Umbria is now the sixth largest of Italy’s 20 regions in the quantity t of DOC wines produced. Today there are two DOCGs and ten DOCs in Umbria, and 30% of the 41,000 vineyard acres are in classified appellations. The soil is mainly shallow, of medium consistency, with a high level of skeletal deposits deriving from the dissolving of the calcareous rock of Mount Subasio. In 1968 the area was awarded its first DOC appellation. The vineyards are at an altitude of about 300 metres, about 15 years old, and are all situated within the DOC wine production area of Assisi. A rich agricultural area famous for olive oil, grains and black truffles, commercial winemaking was not a priority until the mid-20th century, when Giorgio Lungarotti slowly turned his family’s long-held estate from a general agricultural enterprise to commercial vineyards and a winery. Umbria is a relatively small region tucked up against the eastern edge of Tuscany and the Marche’s western border.
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