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Wine Description
The Story
Our Montevero is our flagship wine, a Cuvée blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot. It is our version of a Premier Grand Cru of Tuscany, and stands for absolute top quality and unique character. We can guarantee this by taking the utmost care and being scrupulously selective when harvesting by hand. We produce Monteverro in minimal amounts from grapes from the best plots of the steep hillside slopes that run right down to the sea. The Monteverro owes its silky structure, unmistakable complexity and the impressive richness of aroma in its taste not least to our loving care and attention to every detail.
This structured wine is layered with fruit flavors, opening with blackberry and cherry and showing blueberry and strawberry on the close. The tannins are bold, yet well-integrated. Fermented in a combination of stainless steel and French oak, the wine is aged for 24 months in 70% new, 30% second-use French oak barrels.
VINIFICATION
WINEMAKING: Each lot fermented separately, fermentation in stainless steel and barrel, natural fermentations, 100% gravity, punch downs by hand.
AGING: 24 months in French oak barrels with 80% new oak
BOTTLING: No fining, no filtering
VINEYARD
SOIL: Clay and limestone with eroded stones
PLANTATION: 7,575 vines/ha oriented north/south
HARVEST: Hand picking and harvest date adapted to each section of a parcel
YIELD: 30 hl/ha
Wine Information
2009 Vintage/ The very rainy winter gave the coming season the crucial water to fill the hydric stock of the soil. The budding was quite early (March 29th for Merlot, April 4th for Cabernet Franc and April 10th for Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot) and the moderate weather continued until the end of May, which resulted in perfect flowering. In June, we had two violent storms, but we were fortunate enough to have no damage in the vineyards. The difficult weather was followed by a long, dry period until the harvest of the Merlot between September 12th and 14th.
The weather turned stormy from September 14th until the 22nd, so we paused with harvest until the heat and sun returned and we were able to pick the Cabernet and Petit Verdot from October 1st to the 20th.
