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Cantina dei Colli Ripani
A powerful Marche IGT red from the Colli Ripani cooperative near Ascoli Piceno. Diavolo e Vento is mainly Montepulciano with a little Cabernet Sauvignon, 30 percent air-dried for a dense, spiced, dark-cherry red at 14.5 percent.
Notes drawn from Cantina dei Colli Ripani's technical sheet and 142 Vivino ratings: a deep ruby Montepulciano with 30 percent dried grapes blended in, showing spice, dark chocolate, coffee and ripe black fruit over dense, well-balanced tannin.
Deep ruby in the glass, the nose leads with the dark register the Colli Ripani cellar builds into this Montepulciano: ripe black cherry and wild blackberry over pronounced spice, dark chocolate and roasted coffee. The 30 percent of grapes dried in appassimento before blending push the fruit warmer and jammier than a straight Marche red.
Coffee
Black cherry
Blackberry
Plum
Black pepper
Liquorice
ChocolateFull and persistent, carried by a dense, enveloping tannic frame that the long 20 to 25 day skin maceration and delestage have polished rather than hardened. At 14.5 percent it is warm and generous, with ripe plum and cherry and a savoury liquorice edge; Vivino drinkers consistently note good underlying acidity that keeps the weight in check.
The close is long and spiced, with coffee and dark chocolate returning over fine, drying tannin from the dried-grape portion of the blend.
This is the powerful, appassimento-boosted top red of Colli Ripani's 508 line, grown in selected Ripatransone microzones and built for grilled meat, game and aged cheese. The Vivino crowd rates it 4.2 from 142 votes, in their top 7 percent for the Marche, praising it as smooth, structured and fairly priced; drink it over the next few years rather than cellaring.
One UK listing right now: the 2020 vintage at £24.90 from Svinando, in stock. It is a Marche IGT from the producer's 508 line, close to its Italian shelf price of around 26 euros.
Our fit score reads this as a food-first, powerful Marche red: strong with grilled meat and game, fair rather than bargain value at £24.90, and more a dinner-table bottle than an everyday pour.
Built for food: dense tannin and 14.5% warmth excel with grilled meat, game and aged cheese.
Smooth, ripe and fruit-forward Montepulciano, though 14.5% and firm tannin make it bolder than a starter red.
At £24.90 it is fair rather than a bargain for a Marche IGT; the appassimento work and 4.2 Vivino lift it.
Characterful and powerful for a 508-line IGT, it suits a meat-led dinner more than a formal-occasion cellar wine.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Marche denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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2020 was a generally good, warm year for Montepulciano-based reds across central Italy and the Marche, giving ripe fruit and approachable tannin. The grapes were harvested in the second half of October and the wine is best drunk within about five years of the vintage.
2020 was a generally good, warm growing season for Montepulciano-based reds across central Italy and the Marche, giving ripe fruit with approachable tannin. Harvested in the second half of October, this is best drunk within about five years of the vintage.
2020 was a generally good, warm growing season for Montepulciano-based reds across central Italy and the Marche, giving ripe fruit with approachable tannin. Harvested in the second half of October, this is best drunk within about five years of the vintage.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Bottled as Marche IGT, the region-wide appellation, by the Cantina dei Colli Ripani cooperative in Ripatransone in the Piceno hills of southern Marche.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Marche is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Marche falls within Marche , covering Marche.
Cantina dei Colli Ripani holds yield to 5 to 6 tonnes per hectare in chosen microzones around Ripatransone, concentrating the fruit at the cost of volume.
Drying 30% of the grapes, vinifying them separately and blending them back adds a second vinification, drying losses and cellar time, well beyond a standard IGT red.
A long 20 to 25 day skin maceration plus manual delestage ties up vat space and labour to extract the dense, polished tannin.
It carries the broad Marche IGT rather than the local Offida DOCG or Rosso Piceno DOC, avoiding those appellations' tighter rules and release costs and letting in the Cabernet Sauvignon.
Made by the Cantina dei Colli Ripani cooperative, which spreads grape-growing and cellar overheads across its member growers rather than a single estate.
At 14.5% ABV UK excise duty is about £3.20 a bottle under 2026 HMRC rates, and 20% VAT adds about £4.15 on the £24.90 price, so roughly £7.35 is UK tax.
The producer points this wine at grilled meats, game and aged cheeses. Its dense tannin and 14.5 percent warmth want fat and protein, not delicate dishes.
The wine's dense, drying tannin binds with the fat and char of grilled and braised red meat, leaving the fruit clean. A classic structural match for a 14.5 percent Montepulciano.
Try with: Fiorentina steak · Porchetta · Brasato al Barolo · More pairings →
Tannin and the wine's underlying acidity cut the richness of a slow meat ragu and baked pasta, while the ripe dark fruit echoes the tomato and braised meat.
Try with: Lasagna · Agnello Ragu Lucano · Brasato al Barolo · More pairings →
Full body and 14.5 percent warmth stand up to the strong, gamey flavours of venison and pheasant and the fat of roast lamb, where a lighter red would be flattened.
Try with: Venison Stew · Roast Pheasant · Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce · More pairings →
The producer recommends aged cheeses: the wine's tannin and concentrated fruit balance the salt and umami of a hard, matured cheese without either side overwhelming the other.
Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Strong cheddar cheese · Cheese board
The spice, coffee and dark-chocolate aromatics bridge the herbs and caramelised fat of a fennel-scented porchetta or a herb-crusted roast, lining up flavour rather than fighting it.
Try with: Porchetta · Roast pork · Roast turkey · More pairings →
High tannin and 14.5 percent alcohol amplify chilli heat and turn metallic against delicate fish and shellfish. Keep this wine away from fiery dishes and light seafood.
Skip with: Crispy chilli beef · Szechuan beef · steamed sea bass · oysters · Pairing guide →
This is built for drinking rather than long cellaring. Svinando suggests enjoying it within three to five years, so the 2020 is in its window now.
Peak around 2024. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
An IGT with no mandated ageing; structure from appassimento gives a few years, but Svinando advises drinking within 3 to 5.
£24.90 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumIt is mostly Montepulciano, around 95%, with about 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, grown in selected microzones around Ripatransone in the Marche.
Cantina dei Colli Ripani air-dries 30% of the grapes (appassimento) and ferments them separately before blending, then macerates the wine on its skins for 20 to 25 days. The result is a dense 14.5% red with concentrated dark fruit and firm tannin.
Grilled and roasted red meats, game and aged hard cheeses. Its tannin and warmth suit Fiorentina steak, porchetta, braised beef and aged pecorino, and it can stand up to a meat ragu.
The 2020 is ready now. Svinando suggests drinking it within three to five years of the vintage, so it is in its window rather than a wine to lay down.
Marche IGT is the region-wide Indicazione Geografica Tipica for the Marche. It gives the producer more freedom than the local Offida DOCG or Rosso Piceno DOC, which is why this blend can include Cabernet Sauvignon and use appassimento.
It is listed at £24.90 for the 2020 vintage at Svinando, close to its Italian retail price of around 25 to 26 euros.
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