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Millocchio Rosso label
  • soil: shale with silt and clay
  • altitude: 350m
  • grape varieties: Alicante, Ciliegiolo, Sangiovese and others
  • age of vineplants: 60 years
  • surface: 1ha
  • density: 3.000 plants/ha
  • yield: 2.000kg/ha
  • organic grapes grown without synthetic additives
  • harvest: manually in 15kg cases
  • sponteaneous fermentation with native yeasts
  • no sulfites added
  • long maceration on grape skins
  • aging for 10 months in 500 liter used oak barrels, for 6 months in bottles

Vintage
quantity bottles
total SO2
mg/l
free SO2
mg/l
total acidity
g/l
volatile acidity
g/l
alc.vol.
%
glucose/fructose
g/l
malic acid
g/l
pH
2014
900
14
9
5,9
1,25
12,35
0,03
0
3,37
2015
2.200
11
7
6,5
0,98
13,8
0,03
0
3,62
2016
3.000
9
4
5,9
1,09
12,5
0,09
0
3,61
2017
2.500
16
8
7,6
0,45
13,8
0,70
0
3,29
2018
2.100
11
3
5,5
0,87
13,7
0,14
0
3,62
2019 1.900 10 3 6,7 0,94 13,2 0,19 0 3,46
2020 2.500 14 3 7,32 1,17 12,5 0,23 0 2,97
2021 1.200 9 3 6,80 1,31 13,2 0,63 0 3,53

The Millocchio Rosso primarily comes from the old vineyards of the Millocchio vineyards. It is an assemblage of  separate fermentations of Alicante, Sangiovese and Ciliegiolo grapes, done by following the philosophy of natural wine: spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts, long maceration on the skins, no substances added and no filtration. No SO2 is used in any step of fermentation, processing and bottling, while nitrogen, an inert gas, is used to protect the wine from contact with oxygen during racking and bottling. This wine is aged for 10 months in 500 liter used oak barrels and another 6 months in bottles before leaving the cellar.
The Millocchio Rosso is a wine rich in aromas and flavors with a good acidity and mellow tannins.
Presently the Millocchio Rosso can be found in Austria at Vinifero (Vienna), in Denmark at Il Buco (Copenhagen), in Japan at Terravert (Tokyo), in Italy at Bibo Potabile (Toscana) at Rollingwine (online shop) and at La Valigia di Bacco (Sicily), in The Netherlands at Vinum Naturale / Angolo Vinoso (Amsterdam), in USA at Scuola di Vino, in Australia at VinoMito.
Ranchelle is part of VinNatur and Raw Wine