Villa Ligi "Vernaculum" Pergola Aleatico, 2019

Bright, red tart fruit, black cherry, red plum.  Musk, sandalwood, perfumed bramble and sweet grass; herbacious.  Olives, brisk fruit and flowers on a spunky, dry palate.  100% Aleatico, which is documented to have been growing in Pergola since the 1200s.  It's a local, indigenous grape, bursting with Marche terroir.  Fermented + aged in Stainless Steel and Concrete.  Stefano and his French-born wife, Leah manage the carefully tended vines in the Pergola appellation of the Marche region of Italy.  His father helped to establish the tiny "Pergola" appellation, himself the 2nd generation winemaker. 

Pergola, Italy