Azienda Agricola Denavolo

Travo · Piacenza (PC)

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Established

2005

Giulio Armani

Yearly production

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estate (Colli Piacentini)

Location

Monte Denavolo, comune of Travo, Val Trebbia, province of Piacenza — the Colli Piacentini hills of western Emilia-Romagna

Piacenza (PC)

Vineyard area

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steep Val Trebbia parcels on Monte Denavolo, planted to Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Ortrugo, Marsanne and old local varieties

Appellations

Emilia o dell'Emilia IGT

History

Azienda Agricola Denavolo is the personal project of Giulio Armani, founded in 2005 on the slopes of Monte Denavolo in Travo, in the Val Trebbia hills of Piacenza. Armani has been the winemaker at the celebrated natural estate La Stoppa since 1980; Denavolo let him pursue a question La Stoppa's long-aged reds did not answer — why should white wine be treated differently from red?

The answer is skin-contact white wine, which he began exploring in 2001 but which was historically the traditional way of making white here, as his father and grandfather did. The wines are hand-harvested, spontaneously fermented in stainless steel with several months of skin maceration, and bottled unfined, unfiltered and without added sulfur.

The estate is best known for the amber, blend-based 'Dinavolo' (the reserve, from the upper Débé parcel) and the fresher 'Dinavolino' (born 2009), built on Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Ortrugo and Marsanne — reference points of Italian orange wine, released as Emilia IGT / vino bianco.

Wines

Illustrative selection

Dinavolo

Emilia o dell'Emilia IGT · Malvasia di Candia Aromatica / Ortrugo / Marsanne / local

The reserve skin-contact 'orange' white from the upper Débé parcel.

Dinavolino

Emilia o dell'Emilia IGT · Malvasia di Candia Aromatica / Ortrugo / Marsanne / local

The fresher, juicier skin-contact white (born 2009).

Catavela

Emilia o dell'Emilia IGT · local white field blend

A lighter skin-contact cuvée.

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