I QUATTRO BASTIONI

Romagna Sangiovese Superiore Doc organic wine produced in Castrocaro Terme in the "le Volture" area from 25-year-old Sangiovese vineyards (Romagna clones) with 6000 vines per hectare, trained by the spurred cordon system and located 180 metres above sea level. The yield per hectare is 6000 kg/hectare, or 1.2 kg per plant. As far as vinification is concerned, the Sangiovese grapes are fermented in the blend, with indigenous yeasts. Fermentation and subsequent maceration on the skins takes place in temperature-controlled steel vats. The wine's contact with the skins lasts an average of 18 days; malolactic fermentation follows. Refinement lasts 9 months in cement vats and a minimum of 3 months in the bottle for a total of 7 thousand bottles produced each year.

The label features a sketch of a fairy, a mythological animal symbol of strength that populates the nights of many fairy tales. It is a drawing by Silvio Gordini, one of Emilia-Romagna's best-known artists, great-great-grandfather on his mother's side of Aldo and Paolo Rametta.

I Quattro Bastioni pays homage to the imposing defence blocks (Sant'Andrea, S. Martino, Santa Reparata, Santa Maria) commissioned by Cosimo I and placed at the four corners of the 13-metre-high walls, which enclose the citadel on a rectangular plan measuring 2 kilometres and 87 metres

Poggio della Dogana is located in Terra del Sole, an elevation that in the 16th century served as a boundary point between the Papal Romagna and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Today, the farm spans 20 hectares across the hills of Castrocaro Terme – Terra del Sole and Brisighella, in the heart of Romagna.

The characteristics of the land are crucial for the unique style of our wines: the brown and ochre clays of Castrocaro, rich in bromine, sulfur, and calcium, and the sea breeze blowing from the Adriatic just a few dozen kilometers away to the limestone soils of Brisighella, which impart the unmistakable extension of sapidity.

In the wines and people of Poggio della Dogana, you can sense notes of passion for friendship and love for a land as strong and romantic as Romagna.