{"title":"Collecapretta","description":"\u003cp\u003eClimb to the windswept peak of the Monti Martani above Spoleto and you reach Collecapretta, the \"hill of the goats,\" where the Mattioli family has farmed since the medieval era and where wine is still made as if the twentieth century never intervened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mattioli family has lived in the tiny Umbrian hamlet of Terzo la Pieve for generations, in a borgo that records trace back to the 1100s. Today the estate is run by Vittorio Mattioli, his wife Anna, and their daughter Annalisa, who has gradually taken the lead in the cellar while three generations of the family continue to live and work together on the hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/collecapretta\"\u003eCollecapretta producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vigna-vecchia-collecapretta-trebbiano-umbria-italy-natural-wine","title":"Collecapretta Vigna Vecchia 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eVigna Vecchia is a direct-press white wine from Collecapretta, a small farm in the Colli Martani hills of southern Umbria, just outside Spoleto, in the hamlet of Terzo la Pieve. The wine is made from old-vine Trebbiano Spoletino — a grape native to this corner of Umbria, known for its late ripening, resistance to botrytis, and naturally high acidity. Vines are trained on trellises following the traditional Umbrian espalier method, grown in clay-rich soils laced with outcroppings of tufo and travertine limestone at around 500 meters elevation in the Martani Mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cellar, whole bunches are hand-harvested and gently pressed to extract only the free-run must (mosto fiore). Fermentation is spontaneous, without temperature control, using only indigenous yeasts from the grapes and the cellar. No sulfur is added at any stage. The wine ages in stainless steel, cement, or fiberglass vessels and is bottled unfined and unfiltered, timed to the waning lunar cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVigna Vecchia reads quiet and restrained in its youth — golden yellow in color, with a muted, neutral character that slowly gives way to intense mineral purity and saline tension. Notes of white peach, pineapple, and lemon run through the palate alongside a firm herbaceous edge and a long, salty finish. Trebbiano Spoletino builds complexity with bottle age; older vintages develop more pronounced stone-fruit concentration and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollecapretta bottles fewer than 8,000 total bottles across all wines in a good year. Vittorio Mattioli and his daughter Annalisa manage the 8-hectare property, which also raises animals and grows farro and ancient grains — operating as a genuine closed-cycle farm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecapretta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":13249528102967,"sku":"CAPRVECC17C","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/vigna-vecchia-collecapretta-trebbiano-umbria-italy-natural-wine_ee0f4fe1-e04a-450f-88ed-e155c738a841.jpg?v=1780660041"},{"product_id":"rosso-da-tavola-collecapretta-sangiovese-umbria-italy-natural-wine","title":"Collecapretta Rosso da Tavola 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollecapretta's Rosso da Tavola is a red wine from the Mattioli family's estate in Terzo la Pieve, a small hamlet outside Spoleto in southern Umbria. The vineyards sit at 400–550 meters on the Colli Martani (Monti Martani) in calcium and iron-rich clay soils with outcroppings of tufo and travertine limestone. The blend is 90% Sangiovese and 10% Ciliegiolo, grown on pergola-trained vines in the Umbrian peasant tradition. No herbicides, pesticides, or synthetic inputs are used; vine nutrition comes only from compost produced on the farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in open-top cement vats, without temperature control, with 6 to 8 days of skin maceration. The wine then ages in cement, fiberglass, or stainless steel tanks before bottling, which is timed to the waning lunar cycle. No sulfur is added at any stage of production. The wine is neither fined nor filtered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCiliegiolo, whose name comes from the Italian word for cherry, contributes bright red fruit and a softening effect on Sangiovese's structure. In this blend it adds aromatic lift and early-drinking appeal to an already accessible, high-acid base. The result is a straightforward, honest table wine with genuine regional character — the kind of wine the Mattioli family has been making in this valley for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rosso da Tavola is classified as Vino da Tavola, as Collecapretta declines to use DOC designations that would require compositional compromises inconsistent with their approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecapretta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":13249779040311,"sku":"CAPRTAVO17C","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/rosso-da-tavola-collecapretta-sangiovese-umbria-italy-natural-wine_8a245a3d-eb54-4816-8170-09f3c9afd2eb.jpg?v=1780660109"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/collecapretta.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}