RIO DELLE VIOLE

Rio delle Viole — River of Violets — is the hunting season wine of the Aljano estate: the estate's unique blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, designed as the ideal companion for the hunting season that the estate hosts on its abundant reserve of boar and deer. This is wine conceived for a specific occasion and a specific appetite — and it delivers what that occasion demands with the confidence of an estate that knows its wines and knows its guests.

The blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot is the classic Bordelaise combination applied to an Emilian organic context — the same pairing that has defined the world's great blended reds for generations, here given the particular character of Aljano's specific terroir, its twenty-year-old organic vines, and its minimal-sulphite philosophy. The Cabernet Sauvignon provides the backbone and the aromatic complexity; the Merlot adds the generosity and the textural softness that makes the wine immediately accessible even in the richest of the hunting season preparations.

The great balance combined with sapidity that the estate identifies as the wine's defining qualities are exactly what game cuisine requires: the tannin structure to cut through the richness of wild boar or venison preparations, the fresh acidity to cleanse the palate between courses, and the aromatic complexity to engage throughout a long meal without becoming tiresome. French oak barrel ageing adds the particular layer of integration and spice that the hunting season table context demands.

Rio delle Viole is named for the violet-rich stream that runs through the estate's hunting reserve — a place name that carries both the aromatic suggestion of Merlot's characteristic violet note and the specific geographic identity of the Aljano estate's agricultural world.

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