I Muri Negroamaro, Vigneti del Salento Vintage:2024

I Muri Negroamaro, Vigneti del Salento Vintage:2024This wine is ruby red in colour, with purple hues. This Negroamaro is intense with notes of blackberries and blackcurrants. It is medium bodied and velvety, with good balance and savoury notes on the finish. The vineyards are mostly situated in the communes of Manduria and Sava and are owned by growers with whom Filippo has been working for many years. Production is lower than its potential, which ensures the best quality grapes are selected. The red

The soils are made up of leached

extended fermentation periods and extra lees contact to maximise the terroir character

Grapes are carefully monitored and purchased locally

hints of cocoa and vanilla flavours

The wine is pressed just before dryness and then racked to a mixture of new (2/3) and one year old (1/3) French oak barriques

approximately 80% of the must was fermented in stainless-steel tanks at a controlled temperature of 12°C and the remaining 20% in 40hl oak barrels

hot ripening period

Great with white meats

totalling 55 hectares

in the Monferrato hills of Piemonte (planted in 1998)

lightly honeyed

began operating under his own name in 1987 and handed over the direction of this family-owned estate to his own son Nikolaus in the year 2000