Maccario Dringenberg, Rossese di Dolceacqua Classico, Liguria, Italy 2024

100% Rossese di Dolceacqua

Medium-bodied red with berry fruit and an unmistakable herbal character. This wine is a blend of the estate's different vineyards. Fermentation and maturation is in stainless steel, in order to bring out the character of the grape.

The Rossese di Dolceacqua DOC was created in 1972. The varietal is genetically related to Tibouren, a grape grown in Southern France, and it is still unclear in which region it originated.

Giovanna Maccario is the daughter of one the pioneers of viticulture in Western Liguria, already bottling Rossese wines in the early seventies. Twenty years ago Giovanna began taking care of the vineyards and cellar located in the township of San Biagio della Cima, in the heart of the Dolceacqua district, nestled in-between two steep valleys that lead to the Ligurian Sea, just a couple of miles away.

The vines, some of them over a hundred years old, are trained in the alberello system (Provençal bush-vines) and are planted at such incline that no mechanized work is possible. All the tending and the harvesting are done by hand.