ROSSO D'ALJANO

Rosso d'Aljano is the estate's pride and joy among its red wines — a Cabernet Sauvignon from almost twenty-year-old vines that demonstrates what the international variety achieves when grown on Emilia's organic soils with the particular character of the Aljano estate's specific terroir. The vines' near-two-decade age is significant: Cabernet Sauvignon takes time to develop the depth of root system and the complexity of soil interaction that produces wines of real character, and the Aljano estate's twenty-year-old plants have reached the age at which the variety begins to reveal its fullest territorial expression.

The wine presents as ruby red with purple reflections — the vivid colour of a well-made Cabernet Sauvignon in its most concentrated expression. Intense and complex on the nose yet perfectly balanced on the palate: the combination that distinguishes wines of genuine quality from those that achieve complexity at the expense of balance, or balance at the expense of complexity. The spicy and bush notes that the estate identifies as defining characteristics — gently harmonised by ageing in barrel — reflect both the variety's inherent aromatic character and the specific contribution of the Emilian terrain.

The barrel ageing that the estate applies to Rosso d'Aljano is gentle and considered — designed to harmonise rather than to impose, to integrate the wine's naturally firm Cabernet Sauvignon tannins without obscuring the freshness and the varietal aromatic definition that the old vines and the organic farming have delivered. The result is a wine of genuine complexity and genuine balance.

Rosso d'Aljano is the wine through which the estate demonstrates its commitment to quality across the full range of its varieties — not only the indigenous Spergola and Lambrusco that define Emilia's viticultural identity, but also the international variety that has found genuine expression in this specific organic Emilian context.

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