Folicello

Folicello Bianco Pet Nat Limited Edition 2023

Name: Folicello Bianco Pet Nat Limited Edition 2023
Brand: Folicello
SKU: folicello-limitededition
Price: 25.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$25.00

Style: Lightly sparkling, light-bodied skin-contact white with a slight amber haze from the two-day maceration; the ancestral method produces a soft, natural mousse and gentle textural presence; aromatic and fruit-forward
Grapes & terroir: 90% Pignoletto (also known as Grechetto Gentile, an ancient indigenous Emilia-Romagna variety), 10% Moscato; organically and biodynamically farmed composite soils of clay, silt, and sand in Castelfranco Emilia, Province of Modena; hand-harvested; no synthetic inputs
Winemaking: Two-day maceration; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts; bottled mid-fermentation using the ancestral (pétillant naturel) method; natural in-bottle re-fermentation completes the sparkle; unfined, unfiltered; no added sulfites; no additions of any kind
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve well chilled at 46–50°F; no decanting
Pairing: Tigelle con salumi (traditional Emilian flatbread with cured meats)
Similar to: Pignoletto Frizzante from Colli Bolognesi, pét-nat Chenin Blanc from the Loire, skin-contact Friulano from Friuli

Folicello Bianco Pet Nat Limited Edition 2023 is a lightly sparkling, skin-contact pétillant naturel made from 90% Pignoletto and 10% Moscato grown on organically and biodynamically farmed clay, silt, and sand soils in Castelfranco Emilia, Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna. Folicello gives the grapes a two-day maceration before spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, then bottles the wine mid-fermentation using the ancestral method so that re-fermentation completes naturally in bottle. Folicello Bianco Pet Nat Limited Edition 2023 is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without any added sulfites. 12% ABV. Bianco Emilia IGT.

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Folicello Bianco Pet Nat Limited Edition 2023

$25.00

Producer profile

Folicello

Il Folicello is a small certified organic and biodynamic estate in Castelfranco Emilia, Province of Modena, run by Marco and Antonella, who founded the winery in the early 1980s. Their starting point was entirely personal — they wanted to produce a wholesome wine to drink and share with family and friends, grown and made without chemical inputs in the Emilian countryside they had chosen as their home. What began as a private project gradually evolved into a small recognized producer, though the founding ethos has not changed across four decades: farming that respects the land and winemaking that does as little as possible to alter what the vineyard provides.

The estate grows indigenous Emilia-Romagna varieties — Pignoletto, Montuni, Trebbiano, Lambrusco Grasparossa, and Malbo Gentile among them — alongside Moscato and Pinot Bianco, all farmed without synthetic chemicals, herbicides, or pesticides. Organic manure from the estate's own free-range livestock fertilizes the vineyards, and the farm produces grains and cereals alongside vines, maintaining the kind of polyculture that was standard across Emilian farms before industrial agriculture took hold. The winery runs entirely on solar-generated electricity.

In the cellar, every wine is fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts, without additives, fining, or filtration. The Bianco Pet Nat Limited Edition uses the ancestral method — bottled mid-fermentation to complete its sparkle naturally in bottle — with a two-day maceration to add a degree of texture and aromatic depth. In 2022, the couple's daughter Irene joined the operation, taking responsibility for production management, packaging, and logistics, bringing a new generation into a project that has always been a family endeavor.

Beyond wine, Folicello produces organic grape juice, jams, and vinegar from the estate's harvest — small products that reflect the same commitment to using what the land offers without waste.

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Wine region

Emilia–Romagna, Italy

Castelfranco Emilia sits on the flat agricultural plain of Emilia-Romagna, in the Province of Modena, roughly equidistant between Bologna and Modena in the heart of northern Italy's most celebrated food and wine corridor. The town lies along the old Roman road Via Emilia, which gives the region its name and which has connected the cities of the Po plain since antiquity. The surrounding countryside is intensely cultivated — vineyards share the landscape with fields of wheat, orchards, and pastures supporting the livestock that produce Parmigiano-Reggiano and Prosciutto di Modena.

The soils of the Modena plain in this zone are composite: alluvial deposits of clay, silt, and sand laid down over millennia by the rivers descending from the Apennines to the south. These soils are moderately fertile and well-drained, suited to a wide range of varieties and capable of producing wines of genuine freshness when yields are controlled. The climate is continental, warmed by the proximity of the Po valley sun and moderated to some degree by Adriatic breezes that arrive from the east. Summers are warm and dry; winters are cold. The most important viticulturally relevant feature of the local climate is the significant day-to-night temperature differential during the ripening season, which preserves natural acidity and aromatic intensity in white varieties like Pignoletto and Moscato.

Pignoletto — an ancient indigenous white grape, genetically identified as Grechetto Gentile, with references in written records going back to Roman times — is one of the most important white varieties of this part of Emilia-Romagna. It produces wines with characteristic freshness, floral and stone-fruit aromatics, and a light bitter-almond finish, whether made still, frizzante, or in the ancestral pétillant naturel style that producers like Folicello favor. The Province of Modena is also the home of Lambrusco, Italy's most important sparkling red wine tradition, and both varieties benefit from the same climate conditions and farming culture of the Emilian plain.

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East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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