Pontius

Technical Data:
Production area: DOCG Taburno area
Organic grapes: Bioagricert-certified
Soil: Alluvium/colluvial aggradation bands, characterized by heterometric river gravels with yellowish sandy intercalations
Vine: Aglianico 100%
of plants per hectare: 4.000 / 5.000
Training system: Espalier, Guyot
Harvest period: Third decade of October
Harvest: Manual
Vinification: Selection of bunches, destemming and selection of racemes and immature berries, followed by maceration and fermentation for about 30 days
Aging: At the end of the fermentation follows aging in second passage-barriques for about 12/14 months and further aging in steel/bottle for 12 months.

STORIA ETICHETTA:

Red-figure bell krater 4th Century B.C. – Painter of the Libation

National Archaeological Museum of Sannio Caudino (Bn)

The crater depicts a battle scene of a Samnite warrior with typical trefoil armor and helmet with eagle feathers and lophos, whose hand wields a thin Samnite saunia. Pontius, the valiant Samnite leader defeated the Roman army in the second Samnite War at the Caudine Forks