Umbria

Question 1

What is the climate of Umbria?

Answer 1

Warm, mildly continental as its landlocked

Hot summers can lead to vine stress

Rains mostly in autumn and winter, so Risk of rain at harvest

Sufficient dry autumns for late harvest and botrytis styles

Question 2

What are the key grapes of Umbria?

Answer 2

Sangiovese
Trebbiano Toscano
Grechetto di Orvieto
Meelot
Sagrantino
Cabernet Sauvignon

Question 3

What are the key characteristics of Grechetto?

Answer 3

Thick skinned
Fungal resistant
Good for late harvest

Question 4

What is the typical style of Grechetto di Orvieto wines?

Answer 4

High acidity, medium intensity, lemon, white flowers, medium body

Question 5

What are the key characters of the Sagranito grape?

Answer 5

Moderately productive
Needs full sun and heat to ripen
Hillside vineyards at some altitudes
Guyot or Cordon with spurs and VSP

Question 6

What is the style of Sagranito wines?

Answer 6

High acidity, high tannins, medium (+) to pronounced intensity, blackberry, red plum

Question 7

What are the main appellations of Umbria?

Answer 7

Orvieto DOC
Montefalco Rosso DOC (Sangiovese blend)
Montefalco Rosso DOCG (Sangranito)

Question 8

Which Umbria DOC produces dey, off-dry and sweet wines?

Answer 8

Orvieto DOC

Question 9

What has the Montefalco consortium been doing for the Umbria subregion?

Answer 9

Overall aim to increase standard of grape growing

Installled weather station network so growers can be warned of incoming threats. In turn reduce treatments and chemicals in vineyards

Question 10

What are the interesting Umbria matketing and business points?

Answer 10

Montefalco Sagranito DOCG grown rapidly, 60% exported to USA, Germany and Canada etc

Umbria companies have been innovators of organic viticulture, eneergy recivery from biomass and sustainability