Features
Name:
Nerìo Negroamaro/Malvasia Nera Riserva 2019 DOC Nardò
Terrain:
of Pleistocene silicoclay-calcareous type
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
Nerìo is the top 100 wine for Wine Spectator. A DOC produced with Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera grapes which will fascinate and conquer you. Produced from grapes which are harvested by hand and delicately placed in small aerated boxes to preserve their integrity. A further selection is made in the cellar on a modern sorting table to ensure the use of only the best bunches. In short, a wine which is extremely accurate in the quality of the starting grapes and in the processing in the cellar, a refined and high quality product at an excellent price.
Organoleptic characteristics:
A wine of ruby red color with light garnet hues. It intrigues with its fruit, fascinates with its spicy notes, intrigues for a vague sweetness just hinted.
Aromatic, vegetal, delicately enveloping in the mouth, leaving an aftertaste of overripe fruit, absolutely pleasing. The wine that maybe we all would like to drink in order to be moved at every sip.
Storage time:
evolution in 10-15 years
Vinification
Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation
Acknowledgements
Wine Spectator 90/100
Luca Maroni 93/100
