Conte della Vipera (2024)

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Castello della Sala is a medieval fortress built in 1350 that sits on a rocky promontory near Orvieto in Umbria. The Antinori family purchased the property in 1940 and developed it into a major wine estate with extensive vineyards and restored cellars. In the late 1970s the young enologist Renzo Cotarella began experiments blending Chardonnay with the local Grechetto variety, leading to the creation of Cervaro della Sala in 1985, a white wine notable for barrel aging and malolactic fermentation. Today the estate combines modern winemaking facilities with historic underground aging cellars and manages roughly 229 hectares of vineyards, focused mainly on white varieties and a small plantings of Pinot Noir.