Vintage 2013
Bottle size 500 mL
€64.00
Available
A Vin Santo in the making: ten years of patience in small oak barrels. Amber, honeyed, of extraordinary complexity. About 500 bottles per year.
In our old vineyards we were lucky enough to find this particular variety of Trebbiano, the one once used to make Vin Santo. It has a beautiful bunch: the ripe berries are pink, with a thick, resistant skin, particularly suited to drying.
When the grapes are perfectly ripe, at the end of September, they are laid directly in the small crates where drying will take place. We put only 1 kg in each to avoid the bunches overlapping. The crates are taken to the "vinsantaia" and stacked there in columns, all kept apart from one another to allow proper air circulation. Every month the columns are "taken down", we check every single bunch, and we stack the crates again in a different order: those that were at the bottom go to the top and vice versa. We aim for uniform drying… and it keeps us from getting bored!
After a few months, usually in February, we press the whole bunches. What we obtain is a very sweet, concentrated must. After a brief settling, the must is transferred into 54-litre oak caratelli and there it is "forgotten" for many years. The indigenous yeasts slowly begin their work, alternating moments of activity with long pauses. The vinsantaia sees great temperature swings: freezing in winter and scorching in summer, and of course the yeasts are strongly influenced by temperature. This is one of the key ingredients of our passito, together with the wood in which it ferments and ages, and with the long wait. In fact, we wait about 10 years before bottling it.
Intense amber.
Honey, dried apricot, dates, candied citrus, walnut kernel.
Never cloying sweetness thanks to acidity and slight tannic sensation.
12-14°C
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”?
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