Manifesto

Orange wine resistant variety

Manifesto

Manifesto is a choral project, the result of collaboration with local farmers, with whom it was possible to combine a vision for the future and a temperament trained in experimentation.

To make Manifesto, we chose a resistant vine, the Johanniter, and worked to understand the variety’s potential and to enhance it, adapting vinification to the climate-soil combination. On 12 August 2024, the first harvest, strictly handmade and in boxes. Manifesto is a wine that openly declares our courageous work, committed to honest viticulture.

GRAPES

Johanniter 100%

FIRST PRODUCTION YEAR

2024

BOTTLES PRODUCED

3.200

Medium-textured soil with a higher percentage of sand

East exposure from 200 m a.s.l.

Bilateral Guyot

50 quintals per hectare

Manual harvesting in boxes, from mid-August.

Vinified in steel with the skins in contact with the must for 2 weeks at a controlled temperature, resulting in a modern orange wine. Alcoholic fermentation and separation of the skins from the wine was followed by ageing in steel for 5 months.

100% post-consumer recycled glass bottle | Nomacorc Ocean closure made from OBP plastics | Screen printing | FSC® certified paper | No foil cap

12°C

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It is straightforwardness turned into wine. It tells you what it thinks, without mincing words.

A necessary Manifesto
What makes Manifesto special is its color — that of a modern orange wine. To obtain it, we worked on a PIWI grape, a resistant variety: Johanniter.
The concept of resistant vines was born at the end of the 1800s to counter fungal diseases and phylloxera, by crossing the quality of European vines with the resistance of American ones. Specifically, Johanniter was obtained in Germany in 1968 from Riesling and Freiburg 589-54.
To arrive at Manifesto, as we see it today in the bottle, we observed how the vine adapted to our climate and soil. The different micro-vinifications led us to choose the maceration technique that enhances the grape skin — a feature not typical of the variety, but developed here in response to the land and local temperatures. Hence the amber color, typical of orange wines.
Resistant varieties react better to drought and require fewer field interventions. For this reason, Manifesto is our manifesto of honest and sustainable agriculture.