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Vino Rosso "Novamen," Cascina Melognis - 2017

Name: Vino Rosso "Novamen," Cascina Melognis
Brand: Melognis
SKU: 43422
Price: 24.96 USD
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Item # 43422 750mL

Novamen is a barbera-led blend with pinot noir, from vines that are roughly 50 and 15 years old, respectively. De-stemmed grapes are fermented in stainless-steel tank. After, the wine is aged for a year and a half in older barrels. Michele Fino and Maria Carta started their adventure in winemaking as self-taught growers who chose to grow 3 ha of vineyards at 500 m in elevation. Although just 45 km away from Barolo, the mountainous terrain of the Revello area is flanked by a snow-capped mountain that dominates the austere landscape. It's from here that Alpine waters flow into the lower areas of Piedmont.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2017

Country

Italy

Region

Piedmont

Producer

Melognis

Grape Variety

Barbera

Pinot Noir

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Staff Pick Notes

This juice is all the things I love about Italian winemaking: earthy and leathery, subtle and well-integrated oak, soft, but persistent tannins, measured acidity. It's definitely not a fruit bomb. This Barbera-dominant blend comes from Revello, a high-elevation locale in the northwest corner of Piemonte. Revello experiences higher rainfall and greater diurnal shifts in temperature because of its proximity to Monviso, one of the highest peaks of the Alps. Ancient mixed soils are the hallmark of this unique corner of the region, nutrient poor, but well suited to the proper aromatic development of native varieties. Farming is organic. Grapes are hand-picked. Fermentation is spontaneous. The results are remarkable.

- BLR

Glossary

Piedmont

The most famous grape in Piedmont is the noble Nebbiolo, which makes the long-lived Barolo and Barbaresco. There are plenty of Nebbiolo-based wines that are quite enjoyable in their youth, however, often produced in smaller, lesser-known regions such as Ghemme or Gattinara. Several other Piedmontese grapes make striking and delicious wines: Pelaverga produces light-colored reds with distinctive notes of strawberry, cherry, and pink peppercorn. The red Freisa is vinified in a variety of styles:...

Pinot Noir

The Burgundy region of northeastern France is the historic home of the Pinot Noir grape, and is the source of the world’s greatest examples. Here one finds renditions of Pinot Noir that deliver power with finesse and grace, wines that have unimaginable depth of flavor, yet are perfectly balanced and ephemeral in the mouth - in short, wines that deliver all that Pinot Noir has to offer. Terroir, the concept that wines from a specific region have unique and identifiable traits, is intricately...

Barbera

Barbera is grown all over Italy, but the best examples of this red grape come from Piedmont, where it is made into all manner of wines - from easy-drinking quaffers to serious, cellar-worthy bottlings. Wherever they fall on the spectrum of stodginess, however, they are generally ruby-colored, full-bodied, and highly acidic, with remarkably low levels of tannins. The areas that are most strongly associated with Barbera (for good reason) are the Alba and Asti DOCs, which consistently produce...