Pieve de’ Pitti Moro Di Pava Chianti Riserva

The name Pieve de’ Pitti comes from the Florentine Pitti who owned the estate until the end of the XVII century and from the parish chapel of St. John of Pava, that was built on the ruins of an ancient Etruscan church. The Pieve de ‘Pitti is located on the southern edge of the municipality of Terricciola, in the heart of the Terre di Pisa at 140 meters above sea level. The soils, sands, clays and limestones, are rich of shells and fossils, but the character of the wines comes mainly from the sea breeze that blows all year round from South-West, over the Miemo and Castellina hills. Such puffs, dance through our grapes with a salt embrace, so intense and surprising. The grapes that are grown here represent the terroir and winemaker’s philosophy.

The grapes come from two different vineyard sites (Poggetto and Selva), and the soils are fossil-rich marl and fine, yellow-orange sand. Inky dark and rustic, Moro di Pava has that signature sanguine essence that gives away its origin.

Moro, as the dark colour of this pure Sangiovese that grown in the valley of Pava. Cerretello’s older brother, which share grapes from the oldest vineyards with, Moro di Pava is born from the ripest and concentrates grapes, handy harvested and vinified allowing the innate yeasts to start a spontaneous fermentation, in small vats, with daily fulling.

Then, it matures in the cellar, in used barrels for a never defined time, depending on any vintage tantrums.
The harvested fruit is deeply coloured and fruity grapes, that clearly shows their varietal spicy note.