![]() ![]() Brave enough to take on advice from an external consultant, they progressively moved focus towards quality, removed the lower grade wines from their range, and relaunched their flagship wine as a Bordeaux look-a-like replacing the Pinot Noir with Cabernet Franc. Remo and Ernesto Sportoletti have their soul in Umbrian tradition, but are very creative and ambitious winemakers. ![]() I didn't know it at the time but that year Sportoletti were on the cusp of tremendous changes. I bought a case of Villa Fidelia Rosso 1997, a blend of Merlot, Carbernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir to this day I believe it is the best case of wine I have ever bought. In those days it was a much more rustic operation than today but I can remember vividly the passion that Remo Sportoletti showed as he took my friends and I round the production facilities, and pride he took in describing the wines they were producing at that time. I visited the Sportoletti vineyard for the first time in 1999. ![]()
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