Features
Name:
Nauna Negroamaro/Primitivo IGT Salento 2021
Terrain:
Pleistocene type silico-clay-limestone
Winery
The heart of Schola Sarmenti is an ancient wine factory built in the half of the nineteenth century and remained closed for more than fifty years. Marra and Calabrese families brought back to splendor an ancient symbol of Salento's enology, fulcrum of an important architectural tradition, where culture and territory are transmitted to visitors through the impetuous beauty of star vaults made of tuff and leccese stone.
The embrace between present and past finds its maximum expression in the unique details, able to really move. Going down slowly from a small central staircase, the heart is pervaded by an intense perfume, while the legs want to hurry up, eager to discover that underground world.
The last step and you are finally immersed in wine.
A barrique cellar made of old cisterns one after the other. The right temperature and a constant humidity all year round make it a perfect environment where barrels keep that wine which, once bottled, will end up resting between purple red walls.
A place where you can breathe the air of a distant past, while the scents of wine and wood give a foretaste of the result of this slow rest: the near future.
Description
NAUNA from the Apulian winery Schola Sarmenti is made from a blend of Negroamaro and Primitivo grapes sourced from vines with 50- to 60-year-old Apulian saplings. It is a great red wine, assertive, fresh and balanced.
Organoleptic characteristics:
A riot of aromas envelopes the nose. From the balsamic embrace impetuous scents of ripe fruit are released and slowly slide into an intense chocolate and tobacco finish. A mature sip with smoky notes surprises the palate and imprints the fine and delicate texture of a wine with an incredible persistence.
Storage time:
5-10 years old
Vinification
Grapes harvested by hand and gently placed in small aerated boxes to preserve their integrity. In the winery they are then further sorted on a modern sorting table. Vinification takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats.
Acknowledgements
2019 Luca Maroni 94/99