Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Pagliareto

Lunadoro Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano is best served with homemade pasta with game sauce, roasted lamb, rich stews, dishes with truffles, ripe cheeses.

The vineyards of Lunadoro are located in the area around Valiano, at about 332 meters a.s.l. The soils are clay and the climate is influenced from both the Val di Chiana and the Trasimeno Lake. This area benefits from a favourable wind exposure, which assures the gradual and complete ripening of the grapes. The vineyards (10 ha are cultivated with Sangiovese and 2 ha with Merlot and Petit Verdot) adopt the spur-trained system, obtained by the short pruning (2 buds) of a variable number of renewal spurs (about 4-5 spurs). Each hectare has a density of 5,000 plants and a yield of 7.5 tons of grapes. All the selection and production steps are carried out manually, in perfect harmony with the environment: from pruning to the choice of the best buds, from the control of the vegetation to the thinning out of bunches. The harvest is carried out only by hand and - during destemming - the grapes are selected to retain only those of the highest quality.

24 months with at least 12 months in 5 hl French tonneaux.

Ripe grapes, picked during the first ten days of October, are traditionally vinified by the red wine method, with controlled temperature vinification in stainless steel tanks.

The farm business Lunadoro is based in Valiano near the well-known town of Montepulciano within the Val d’Orcia Natural Park. The estate extends over an area of 40 ha on a ridge 12 of which are vineyards. In 2006 the wine cellar was completely renovated by local architects and engineers and modern vinification technologies were implemented together with traditional oak casks where wine rests and is aged. Lunadoro is a member of the “Consorzio del Nobile” and carries out a closed-cycle production which means it has a vinification cellar a storage cellar and a cellar for barrel and bottle aging.