"ALLEGRO ITALIANO" Sparkling Pignoletto white wine,Italy I DUE AIRONI price supplier

The freshness and the natural fragrance of the fizzy Pignoletto are mingled with the perfumes of Chardonnay and Sauvignon in the composition of this white that finds its strength in the joy and the agreeableness. Yellow pale, naturally fizzy, yielded and fresh where the typical bitterish aftertaste of the Pignoletto is mitigated by a sugary residue to the limits of the agreeable, it is excellent for aperitif, appetizers, first courses, fried food and fish.

A brief history of wines of COLLI BOLOGNESI (Bolognesi Hills) and Pignoletto: a precious casket of quality and agreability

 

When ancient Romans, around second centuries B.C., submitted and unified under the sign of the “ Lupa ”(she-wolf) the territories lived by the restless tribes of the Gauls Boi , probably they had thousand motives to do it, not excluded those connected to the agricultural wealth of such zones. The grape rows had married to alive trees, according to the use introduced by the Etruscans and developed subsequently by the Gauls . Such method in fact is called " arbustum gallicum ", it is particularly proper to the low and damp earths of the lowland, but, above all, it was increased on the hilly areas. In the majority of the cases the trees were the olives, that had found a favourable environment to their development in these hills, and also after over twenty centuries, in some areas, such cultivation is still long live and in strong resumption.

 

It has been verified that from such territories, above all those hilly sets to south-west of Bononia (the ancient name of the town of Bologna), our Latin ancestors produced wines that impassioned them a lot! The earths of the “ager bononiensis” (land around the town) were assigned and cultivated by the veterans, who fought in so many military campaigns, for which the drink form Baccus was clearly tasted and appreciated!

 

Plinius the Elder - I° sec. AD - in the chapter " Ego sum pinus laetus " drawn by the monumental work of agronomy " Naturalis Historia ", enunciates that in " apicis collibus bononiensis " (at the top of Bologna’s hills) was produced a wine sparkle and albanum (blond), very particular, but not enough sweet to be pleasant and therefore appreciated, since it is well-known that during the Imperial Age the wine was appreciated sweet, spicy and aromatized with innumerable essences, besides, always fully mature: for this reason young wines were not able to satisfy the pretentious palates of the nobility.

 

  From the fall of the Western Roman Empire - 476 AD - up to the XI° and XII° centuries, for the humanity of the old continent, a dark period passed.

 

We unanimously recognized to the Church the worth to have defended the cultivation of the grapevine.

Inside the thick and sure boundaries of convents and abbeys, the grapevine was cultivated to get that wine symbol of religiousness and continuity of faith, defending the tradition from the innumerable barbaric invasions that was overwhelming the Enotria Tellus (since anciently Italy was so called and appreciated).

 

Between alternate situations, it is arrived to the VII° sec. in which a conclusive moment is verified for the future of the agriculture and the wine. In 612 in Bobbio , in the loneliness of the Placentia hills, St. Colombano , deriving from native Ireland, was established, founding the famous monastery. Only two century after took place the first settlement of the area of the Monteveglio Abbey , about 3 kilometres from the I DUE AIRONI farm. The tradition hands down that, to be accepted and to become monks, besides the faith, the beginner had to have notions of " agriculture ". “ Our prior sent the brothers to not only spread the voice of the Christianity but also that of the crop, cultivation and rural restoration of the countries devastated by the raids of the barbarian “.

 

It is certain that the ancient Latin progenitors would not have troubled Bacchus or, still previously, the Greek Dionysos and also St. Colombano in the sacredness represented by the wine, without having realized that this nectar had for the men a manifold potentiality: make up for to the works, hedonistic and spiritual, in contrast with that of the poison !

   

Taking back the walk to the search of traces that can conduct us to the wines that we today taste, we come upon there in the biographies of the industriousness of such monk-rural, that have come up to our days, in which are mentioned the notable impulses for the development of the grapevine. They were scattered in all the Italian regions and in their migration they verified that on the Bolognese hills it was produced a good gilded and mordant “vinello” fizzy or still

 

-“ omnia alia vina in bontate excedir " …a wine superior for goodness to all the others…" and not only drunk during the liturgical practices, but also, and with joy, on the table of the noble and of the common people, gotten by Grapes and appreciate known as “ Pignole ”!

 

The centuries, which have spent for coming up to our days, have been undisputed witness of innumerable facts and citations about the wines of our splendid Bolognese hills.

 

In 1300, Pier de' Crescenzi , in the most important essay of medieval agronomy " Ruralium commordorum - book XII", describes the organoleptic characteristic of the " Pignoletto " that was drunk in that period, as the wine, over that the most produced, was also the more pleasant for agreeability and for the vivacious and gilded foam.

Agostino Gallo in “Le venti giornate dell’agricoltura” (the twenty dais of agriculture) - 1567, solicited to plant “ pignole ” grapes both for the notable production and for the florid commerce because always sought after.

 

Physician and botanist of Pope Sisto V°, Bacci , in the personnel 1596’s essay " De naturalis vinarium istoria de vitis Italiane ", affirmed the" … rare et optime …" intrinsic quality of the Pignoletto grape. So also Soderini , known Florentine agronomist, always in that years, confirmed the characteristics of it.

Trinci - 1726 - underlines the characteristics of such vine: we can recognise the today's pignoletto almost in its totality of such affirmations, not to say that they are the same.

 

Further confirmations have brought in the 1881’s Bullettino Ampelograficho , in which is named the Pignoletto grape produced in the hills set to south of the town of Bologna, whose similarity with the actual production is amazing, and don't leave more entrance to other doubts: actual Pignoletto is the same of our more antique traditions.

 

The Pignoletto, through different appellatives and characteristics, changed only for the time passing, it can be found also today with the same fundamental organoleptic tastes: a unique wine rich of peculiarity with its particular bitterish aftertaste. It is well-known that such wine is considered the "King of the Bolognese Hills ", but also the other typologies produced in these handkerchiefs of hilly, sloping earth, are decidedly exclusive, frizzy or still, typical and characteristic. All wines are submitted to the D.O.C ministerial disciplinary that safeguards the qualities for a more and more careful attention to the demanding consumer.

The town of Bologna, known for it’s ancient University, for the rich cousin (remember the “ragù alla Bolognese”- Bolognese meat sauce) is also famous for being “godereccia” (pleasure-loving) and an anonymous author of two centuries ago, good expert of our town and our dishes coined this motto:

“At table there is silence when you eat well but drink badly, in Bologna at table you always have laughter and clamours!!"

  

pallets 600 bottles of 12 bottles cartoons. 11 pallets/container 20'.

Seeling ex works. Mean delivery time 30 working days.

 

I DUE AIRONI (The Two Herons)

 

  Bologna, town in the central North of Italy, is famous throughout the world especially for its ancient university and most of all for its cuisine, including dishes such as tagliatelle (noodles), tortellini , lasagne and, above all, the renowned “Ragu’ alla Bolognese” .

Historically these dishes have always been accompanied by wines obtained from vines grown on the hillsides around Bologna, the most famous of which is the Pignoletto grape, a white grape native to, and grown only in this region for hundreds of years.

The earliest mention we have of the grape is in Pliny the Elder’s 1 ^st century Naturalis Historia which refers to the vine as Pinus Laetus . Other references date from around the year 1600 and describe a wine obtained from uva pignola .

In 1985 the wine obtained VQPRD DOC ( denominazione di origine controllata ) status and today represents the archetypal Bolognese hill wine.

The vineyard “I Due Aironi” (the Two Herons) is located just outside Castello di Serravalle in the hills surrounding Bologna. The vineyard produces only wines obtained from its own vines, cultivated using integrated techniques and without the use of herbicides, blending ancient tradition and craftsmanship with modern equipment and technology. The final produce is of the highest quality and flavor, and free of pesticides.

Pignoletto, autochthonous vine king of these territories, bears yellow-compact bunches of grapes.

From witch we produce three types of wine, which differ according to the techniques of cultivation and wine making:

Still Pignoletto (production less than 10 T/ha), Sparkling Pignoletto (production less than 10 T/ha) and Classic Pignoletto (production less than 7 T/ha).

Other cultivated vines are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay , and, either for our Magnesium-rich soils, and for the dry and sunny climate, they reach particular levels of quality and peculiarity.

Currently the full production is of around 120,000 bottles/year, but we plan to double within three or four years.

The market is today predominantly constituted of lovers of our wines, direct customers, we sell via Internet, by telephone or directly from the wine cellar; we also export to C.E. countries.

 

Legal Representative and Contact Person: Gianfranco Veronesi

Address: Via Marzatore 739 40050 Castello di Serravalle (Bo) Italy

TEL & FAX +39 051 6705099     Website: www.idueaironi.it