Features
Name:
Nerìo Negroamaro/Malvasia Nera Riserva 2021
Terrain:
of the Pleistocene silicoclay-calcareous type
Cellar
The heart of Schola Sarmenti is an old winery built in the mid-19th century and closed for over fifty years. The Marra and Calabrese families have thus restored to splendour an ancient symbol of Salento oenology, the fulcrum of an important architectural tradition, in which culture and territory are transmitted to the visitor through the impetuous beauty of the star-shaped vaults made of tuff and Lecce stone ashlars.
The embrace between the present and the past finds its maximum expression in the unique details, capable of truly moving. As you slowly descend a small central staircase, your heart is pervaded by an intense perfume, while your legs yearn to hurry up, eager to discover that underground world.
The last step and you are finally immersed in wine.
A barrique cellar made from old cisterns, one after the other. The right temperature and constant humidity all year round make it a perfect environment where the barrels store that wine which, once in the bottle, will end up resting between purple-red walls.
A place in which to 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 from Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera grapes that will fascinate and win you over. Produced from grapes that are harvested by hand and delicately placed in small ventilated boxes to preserve their integrity. A further selection is made in the cellar on a modern sorting table to ensure that only the best bunches are used. In short, a wine that is extremely well cared for in the quality of the starting grapes and in the processing in the cellar, a refined product of the highest quality at an excellent price.
Organoleptic characteristics:
A ruby red wine with slight garnet hues. It intrigues with its fruit, captivates with its spicy notes, and intrigues with a vague, barely hinted at sweetness.
Aromatic, vegetal, in the mouth it delicately envelops, leaving an aftertaste of overripe fruit, absolutely pleasant. The wine that perhaps we would all like to drink in order to be moved with every sip.
Storage time:
evolution in 10-15 years
Vinification
Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation
Acknowledgements
Wine Spectator 90/100
Luca Maroni 93/100
