TORTI
Azienda Torti – Teniment Castelrotto – is located in
a triangular area formed by Santa Maria della Versa, Montecalvo
Versiggia and Rocca d é Giorgi, in the southwest of Lombardy’s
Oltrepò Pavese wine zone, flanked by Piedmont and Emilia
Romania. The majority of the wine of Lombardy comes from this zone,
whose greatest contribution to viticulture came after they learned
about winemaking from the Greeks around 600 BC. Oltrepò Pavese
refers to the location, across the Po from Pavia, and is still sometimes
referred to as Antico Piedmonte. In the beginning of the century
Giovanni Torti began cultivating vineyards in this ideal position,
where the hills rise abruptly south of the Po towards the Apennines.
The soil is variations of chalk, calcareous, and clay formations
and the climate is relatively mild, characterized by a hot dry spell,
coupled with cooling breezes, in late summer and autumn that favors
full ripening of the grapes. Enrico Torti, Giovanni’s son,
learned the wine business from his father and today Dino Torti,
Giovanni’s grandson, together with his wife Giusy and daughters
Patrizia and Laura, own and operate the business. Dino has perfected
the operation by selecting better plots of land with proper exposure
to the sun and thermal paths, the biological structure of the vines
and reduction of yield per hectar, and applying new techniques in
vinification and bottling in order to obtain the absolute best wine
possible.
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