Vintage 2017
Bottle size 500 mL
€45.00
Available
Megliotardi was born by chance (and thanks to someone else’s change of mind). In 2017, a friend and customer commissioned a tailor-made wine: a late-harvest Vermentino, aged in wood and to be bottled strictly in Magnum format. At the end of September that year, the weather was scorching, there was drought, and the grapes were exceptionally rich in sugars. We harvested the small lot, carried out a long maceration on the skins and, after drawing off, transferred the wine into a barrique. Months passed, but there was no sign of the client: they had vanished. The barrique ended up in the corner of the “lost” barrels, literally forgotten behind the Vin Santo caratelli. Then came 2024: we changed cellars, moved the barrels and... found it! We removed the bung with considerable hesitation, prepared for the worst. And instead? An incredible surprise. A wine that won us over from the very first sip and that we inevitably decided to bottle. What else could we call it but “MEGLIOTARDI che mai”?
Organically farmed Vermentino grapes, harvested late by hand in crates. Long maceration on the skins, followed by drawing off and transfer to barrique. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts. Unfiltered and unfined.
In the glass it displays an intensely golden colour and formidable power, both on the nose and on the palate. A wine made from dried grapes might be expected to be sweet and soft... but not this one. On the palate it is a dry, warm and profound explosion that dries and fills the mouth with intense notes of dried fruit, candied citrus and Mediterranean scrubland. There is only a faint memory of sweetness.
During those seven years of oblivion, the indigenous yeasts worked tirelessly in the dark, consuming almost every gram of sugar and bringing the alcohol level to a remarkable 17.5% ABV. The barrique was never topped up, and the ageing process took place entirely in an oxidative environment, enriching the wine with a unique and unpredictable aromatic profile.
Serve not too cold, to avoid excessively accentuating the alcohol and acidity.
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