Petrolo Soc. Agr. s.s

Loc. Petrolo, 30 Mercatale Valdarno 52021 Bucine (Ar)
Tel. (+39) 055 9911322
web: https://www.petrolo.it/
E-mail: petrolo@petrolo.it

Ha of vineyards: 31
Grapes: Merlot, Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Trebbiano, Malvasia
Other Products: Extravergine Olive Oil IGP Toscano, Extravergine Olive Oil Laudemio, Honey, white grappa and aged in barrel
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We at Petrolo, vine-growers in the Vald’Arno di Sopra, disciples of Nepo da Galatrona, by tradition, culture and education Heraclitian, Dyonysian-Epicurean-Lucretian, Hermetic-Fician, Leonardesque neo-Platonic and Giorgionesque neo-Aristotelian, romantics and revolutionaries, we believe that God is in all things, and that the earth itself is God; and that everything is fertile, vital, wet, crackling, lush. And that man is joined to heaven by means of his divine element and is in all things and all places occupying the core of the ramified and highly complex configuration of animal and vegetable beings: the heart of that infinite affinity of all things which is the Universe-World. And we winemakers, men and women rushing to the future in leaps and bounds, turn back toward the original and the ancient, believing that the revelation of the world breathing was silent and by just being silent and listening to nature, as it appears at intervals, occult and enigmatic, glittering like flashes of memory, guiding us to dynamic future ways of wine from the inside out, from top to bottom, from the future to the past. And we believe that wine, a great wine, is the poetic alchemical metamorphosis of nature into culture. And that only by having a light hand and gentle heart are we able at times to bend nature to our sentiments, to humanize it and making it more beautiful, like a reality imagined in a dream. Wine is nature as dreamed by man, thus enhanced by sentiment; a wine that is great, a great wine, is nature transformed; which only at the moment of drinking elevates itself and its natural essence because it immediately inspires desire and memories. All of nature is in wine, but wine is not only nature. (Luca Sanjust, Translation by Burton Anderson)

 

PRODUCTS

NAME: GALATRONA
DENOMINATION: Val d’Arno di Sopra DOC – Vigna Galatrona, merlot – Estate produced and bottled
CERTIFICATION: Organic
FIRST YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1994
GRAPES: Merlot 100%
PRODUCTION: about 30.000 bottles
VINEGROWING: Since 2004 we have been abandoning traditional farming methods practising natural and sustainable solutions: dry farming and no fertilization, no tillage, total grassing with mulch management, no use of synthetic pesticides. In 2016 the winery obtained official Organic Certification (Petrolo olive oil is organic since the 90’s). To achieve natural balance in the vineyard, plant management is carried out by hand with targeted intervention. Heavier pruning and grape thinning is almost absent in the mature vineyards already balanced. Today extraordinary growth management is only needed in the more challenging years.
VINIFICATION: Manual harvest in crates and further grape selection with sorting table. Natural vinification with native yeasts in cement vats. Manual soft and frequent pumping over. Long skin maceration.
AGING: Spontaneous malo-lactic fermentation in wood. Maturation in Frech oak barrique, a third new, for about 18 – 20 months. Constant batonnage of the fine lees for the first 6 months.
STILE: Intense elegant wine with great structure and complexity, lovely balance between acidity, fruit and tannins. A great wine, beyond the grape varietal it is made from, must be expression of the piece of land it came from. Beyond being essentially good, it has to be a classic in its own way.
VINEYARD: Galatrona is the Gran-cru of Merlot made from the vineyard of the same name planted between the end of the 80’s and half of the 90’s with low vigor bordeaux clones in the locality known as Feriale. The vineyard extends for 10 Ha with almost 50.000 plants grown on spurred cordon trellising.
SOIL: Loam rich in clay, with shale, marl and sandstones. Altitude 300 m asl. South-eastern exposure. Placed on the south-eastern borders of the Chianti Hills, in the DOC Val d’Arno di Sopra. Clay helps keeping moisture in the soil, of which merlot has higher needs in the hot, dry, Tuscan summers. The combination of stones, shale and clay is among the elements that allow Galatrona to produce an elegant and full bodied wine even in what are considered minor vintages.

COLOR Dark ruby red
NOSE The nose opens with an intense bouquet of blueberries and blackberries, enriched by pleasant hints of violets and spicy notes
TASTE The palate is fresh, structured and full-bodied, pleasantly persistent and balanced, with a noble tannic texture. strutturato e corposo, piacevolmente persistente ed equilibrato, con una nobile trama tannica.
PAIRING FOOD: dishes with meat sauce and roasts, is ideal in combination with game and damp. 

ALCOHOLIC CONTENT 14% vol.
OTHER WINES:
Torrione Valdarno di Sopra DOC Pietraviva Rosso (Sangiovese, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon)
Boggina A Valdarno di Sopra DOC Sangiovese (Anfora – cru di Sangiovese)
Boggina B IGT Toscana Trebbiano (Trebbiano Toscano)
Boggina C Valdarno di Sopra DOC Sangiovese (cru di Sangiovese)
Campo Lusso Valdarno di Sopra DOC Cabernet Sauvignon (cru di Cabernet Sauvignon)
Inarno Valdarno di Sopra DOC Sangiovese (Sangiovese)
Sanpetrolo IGT Toscana Passito (Trebbiano Toscano e Malvasia Lunga del Chianti)

From 2016 the Petrolo’s wines are organic certificates in accordance with European directives

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