Muraje Vino Rosso Carema Lasú 2020

Vineyards are cultivated between 300 and 600 mt above sea level, on centuries old terraces supported by dry stone walls on rocky amphitheater of Carema town in province of Turin (Piedmont, north-west of Italy). The grapes are about 60% Nebbiolo and 40% other local red grapevine varieties, widespread in the Canavese and Pre-Alpine areas (Neyret, Ner d'Ala, Vernassa and others); the vines are on everage 50 years old and are trained using the ancient ‘pergola caremese’ (‘topia’ in local dialect) method.

“Lasú” is the dialectal term to indicate the third wooden beam (starting from the lowest which is the “Sumié”) of the order of beams that make up the Caremese pergola structure: the “Lasù” rests on the “Percia”, which in turn rests on the larger “Sumié”.

Grapes were harvested and sorted manually in mid-October. In the evening, the grapes were de-stemmed and pressed, and the must went into stainless steel tank for spontaneous alcoholic fermentation. The must was pushed down manual once daily. Contact with the skins lasts on average a month and a half.

After the racking and the pouring off, the wine was put in exhausted tonneau and barrique and some glass carboys. In the spring the wine, after spontaneous malolactic fermentation process, was racked again in exhausted tonneaux and barrique. The wine is usually bottled in September following the harvest. The bottles were labelled and capsulated with blu shellac by hand. No added oenological additive with the exception of sulphur dioxide in minimum quantities.