Piedirosso Pompeiano I.G.T.

Characteristics

It is a wine characterized by more or less intense ruby red color and wild berries aroma, such as strawberries and raspberries. its taste is warm, dry, without yielding, soft but not syrupy. It is a wine with good freshness with a slight astringency. it is ideal with red meat and aged cheeses.

Tradition

The territory included in the province of Naples has a wine tradition that goes back centuries. The first Greek settlers realized the enormous potential of the land, made fertile by the perfect climate and the purely volcanic soil. Since then, the cultivation of the vine has been a pillar for the economy in Campania surviving and bringing wealth for centuries to all peoples who lived here. The emperors and high-ranking Romans had a predilection for wines from Campania, as attested by several authors and numerous archaeological finds.

Among the many species of grapes, Piedirosso represents the witness of a well-defined territory, the volcanic area on the slopes of Vesuvius. Its unique flavour derives only from the extraordinary composition of the soil, and the climate of Neapolitan plain. Moreover, Pompeii in Roman times was the main commercial center for wine in Campania.

Its name has uncertain origins, but many scholars believe that it correspond to the "Colombina" mentioned by Plinio the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. In Neapolitan tradition Piedirosso is called "Pèr e palummo” is that “Pigeon foot",, a nickname derived from the characteristic colour of the shoot just before the grape harvest , a ruby red very similar to the bird's foot .

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