A Storybook Ascent
From sharecroppers to successful estate winery owners
The family history of the Carlottos reads like a novel, with the dust
cover blurb saying, “In three generations from sharecroppers to an
estate winery dynasty.” Ferruccio Carlotto takes responsibility for this today in Ora – right in the heart of the Alto Adige Pinot Noir cultivation zone.
The
cornerstone for the family’s success story was already laid by Umberto
Carlotto as early as 1940 when he signed up as a sharecropper at the
Schlosshof in Mazzon. As such, he did in fact work the estate under his
own responsibility, but the financial risk lay with the proprietors –
as did the profits. In spite of that, Umberto carried out his tasks
with passion for fifty years, flanked at first by his brother and then
by his son Ferruccio.
And the latter was also the one who
ventured to make the leap into independence in 2000 – new millennium,
new luck – along with his daughter Michela and on the basis of six
hectares of winegrowing area in Ora. The two of them devote 70 percent of this area to Pinot Noir –
and not by chance. “The north-south alignment of the vineyards and the
soil with its clay content are good preconditions for a round, spicy
Pinot Noir with pleasant tannin and fine tones of fruit,” Ferruccio
Carlotto explains.
Aside from the Pinot Noir, Lagrein makes up
a quarter of the annual production of the Ferruccio Carlotto Estate
Winery. His grapes grow on the rocky alluvial soils
of
the Rio Nero, while the winery’s Schiava is raised in a small vineyard,
also in Ora, that was planted in 2013. As a bow to tradition.
Via Clauser 19
,
39040
,
Ora
Тел. +39 0471/810407
michelacarlotto@gmail.com
www.ferruccio-carlotto.com
Тел. +39 0471/810407
michelacarlotto@gmail.com
www.ferruccio-carlotto.com
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“The north-south alignment of the vineyards and the soil with its clay content are good preconditions for a round, spicy Pinot Noir.”
Ferruccio Carlotto, head of the estate winery of the same name in Ora
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You can find more information here:
www.ferruccio-carlotto.com