The Campanella Agricultural Company, during the year 2009, it decided to give light to a new project by planting the Trebbiano Spoletino, autochthonous white grape variety of ancient origins that adapts to any type of soil and allows to make wines from straw yellow color, with a pleasant, delicate and fresh aroma and a broad taste with pleasant tones of freshness and flavor.

The project aims to to enhance this now almost abandoned Umbrian vine and to allow the rediscovery of the wines obtained from it. The name "Trebbiano Spoletino" is attributed to the Latin name of the city of Trevi, that is Trebia and therefore Trebbiano with the addition of the adjective Spoletino to distinguish it from the other Trebbiani. This adjective is presumed to have been given due to the presence of the powerful and nearby city of Spoleto, at the time of the great Duchy.
The most suitable land for cultivation of this vine, are those of the plains with moderate fertility and a high sunny exposure. The most adopted training systems are those with spurred cordon, even if in ancient times it was grown together with field maple or elm, in such a way as to keep the bunch away from the surface of the ground, thus avoiding the late frosts typical of the plain. The leaves are heart-shaped, round, palmate, with 3-5 unevenly toothed lobes, inserted alternately on twigs (shoots) characterized by nodes and internodes. The grape is medium, spheroidal in shape, yellowish-green in color with thick, waxy skin; its ripening is late, around the end of October.
The origins of this vine are very ancient, but the first mentions date back to Roman times when Pliny the Elder narrated, in his work Naturalis Historia, of the Vinum Tribulanum like a wine of noble origins. In later times this vine was considered "luxury", given the particular wine that was obtained from it, with a simple and delicate flavor. Given its adaptability to any type of soil, this vine spread throughout central Italy, assuming, for each area, different characteristics and giving rise to different varieties of Trebbiano. Lat its high productivity it made it a wine loved by the vast majority of growers, and that is why it was also renamed "chase away debts". Over the years, the cultivation and relative production of Trebbiano Spoleto gradually declined, until it almost reached its complete extinction.
In recent years there has been a rediscovery of this vine with unique characteristics, with an increase in its cultivation, due to its particular predisposition for the creation of long-life wines with elegance and great finesse and to its particular flavor, which distinguishes it from classic Trebbiano.
The characters of Spoleto Trebbiano
Peak: medium, cottony, whitish-green
Leaf: medium, pentagonal, five-lobed; petiolar sinus with open lyre, upper lateral sinuses U-shaped, lower ones V shallow; upper side green, lower side light green, wavy and bullous edge
Woody branch: long; brown bark with darker knots
Bunch: medium-large, 250-450 g. cylindrical, compact
Grape: medium, spheroidal; green-yellowish, thick, pruinose skin; neutral flavor
Sprouting: late (20 - 30 April)
Flowering: medium (10 - 20 June)
Maturation: late (10 - 20 October)
Vigor: remarkable
Poise: semi-erect
Fertility of the basal buds: average
Productivity: medium-high
Pruning: also suitable for short pruning (ramming)
Mechanical harvest: medium difficulty

Susceptibility to plant diseases, animal parasites and virus diseases
Downy mildew, Escoriasis, Esca disease, mites: average
Powdery mildew, Curling, Curling: sensitive
Botrytis, Sour Rot: poor

Adaptability
Spring Frosts: Great
Wind: average
Drought: good
Chlorosis: poor
Desiccation of the spine: poor

More suitable soils
Flat land with moderate fertility
Hilly with sunny exposure

Curated by Claudio Gori