Ageno 2022

La Stoppa
Country: Italy
Regions:Emilia-Romagna
Wine Type:Orange
Vintage: 2022
Bottle Size: 750ml
Alcohol: 13%
€39,50 incl. 21% IVA SpainClick to change country.
€52,67 per litre
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Ageno is La Stoppa's landmark orange wine — made from Malvasia di Candia Aromatica, Ortrugo, and Trebbiano grown on Elena Pantaleoni's 50-hectare estate in the Colli Piacentini hills of northwest Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Four months of skin maceration. A year in barrel. Two years in bottle before release. A serious orange wine for serious orange wine lovers — and the 2022 is perhaps the best vintage yet.

What is Ageno by La Stoppa — and what makes 2022 special?

La Stoppa was founded in the late 19th century by a lawyer named Gian Marco Ageno — the wine carries his name. Today the estate is run by Elena Pantaleoni, who took it over in 1991, and head winemaker Giulio Armani. They farm their Emilia-Romagna estate without chemical input, using native yeasts and making no additions to the wine. Nothing leaves the estate early.

The grapes are co-harvested and destemmed, fermented with native yeasts in tank with around four months of skin contact, then spend a year in barrel and at least two years in bottle. Ageno typically carries the complexity — and occasional volatile acidity — of a wine that has been through a great deal. The 2022 is different.

The 2022 vintage is noticeably softer than previous releases. The volatile acidity that can characterise Ageno in warmer years is so well-integrated here that only the most discerning palate will even sense it — and most won't. Expect peppermint, tangerine, and rosemary on the nose, evolving into greater complexity and a subtle nuttiness as the glass opens. Really incredible, and genuinely our favourite recent vintage.

Serve at room temperature and give it time in the glass — this wine opens and evolves considerably. The natural partner for aged hard cheese, game, roast pork with herbs, or a long and unhurried antipasto spread.

We ship every Wednesday. Order by Tuesday 10am.

AGENO 2019 | Natural Wine by La Stoppa.
La Stoppa - Ageno 2022
€39,50 incl. 21% IVA SpainClick to change country.
€52,67 per litre

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La Stoppa sits in the hills above Rivergaro, near Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna. Founded in the late 19th century by the lawyer Gian Marco Ageno, it was bought by Elena Pantaleoni's father in 1973, and Elena has run it since the 1990s. Of the 50 hectares, about 32 are vines on heavy clay at around 250 metres. In 1996 Elena and winemaker Giulio Armani, who also makes Denavolo, replanted most of the international varieties with Barbera, Bonarda and Malvasia di Candia Aromatica.

Fermentations are spontaneous, with long skin contact in steel, cement and wood. Macchiona, half Barbera and half Bonarda, spends around three years in large Slavonian oak and two more in bottle, so older vintages are easy to find. Ageno is the famous skin-contact white with about four months on the skins, Costabosco a lighter Malvasia. Trebbiolo Rosso is the everyday red.

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