'Novel Concept' Novello Sangiovese 2024
I love sangiovese, and it is one of the most planted Italian varieties in Italy and Australia. Sangiovese is quite adaptable to its environment, and quite malleable in the winery, meaning you can get diversity of styles. In previous vintages I have made full bodied red wines and occasionally rosé from sangiovese, but for the 2024 vintage I was interested in making a lighter bodied, younger-drinking red wine.
Fruit was machine-harvested and de-stemmed into a stainless-steel open fermenter where it stayed for five days on skins. The wine was pressed before it had finished fermenting to limit extraction of tannin. After pressing the wine completed ferment in stainless steel, and once complete was transferred to neutral French oak puncheons for malolactic fermentation. The wines was blended and bottled without fining or filtering in at the end of November 2024.
Vino Novello is Italy’s answer to the famous French wine Beaujolais Nouveau, being a very light and fresh young wine. Novello essentially means new, and typically this Italian produced wine is intended to be consumed within a year of production. It can be made from a great many different varieties, but ultimately the concept is the same, novel or otherwise.
I love sangiovese, and it is one of the most planted Italian varieties in Italy and Australia. Sangiovese is quite adaptable to its environment, and quite malleable in the winery, meaning you can get diversity of styles. In previous vintages I have made full bodied red wines and occasionally rosé from sangiovese, but for the 2024 vintage I was interested in making a lighter bodied, younger-drinking red wine.
Fruit was machine-harvested and de-stemmed into a stainless-steel open fermenter where it stayed for five days on skins. The wine was pressed before it had finished fermenting to limit extraction of tannin. After pressing the wine completed ferment in stainless steel, and once complete was transferred to neutral French oak puncheons for malolactic fermentation. The wines was blended and bottled without fining or filtering in at the end of November 2024.
Vino Novello is Italy’s answer to the famous French wine Beaujolais Nouveau, being a very light and fresh young wine. Novello essentially means new, and typically this Italian produced wine is intended to be consumed within a year of production. It can be made from a great many different varieties, but ultimately the concept is the same, novel or otherwise.
I love sangiovese, and it is one of the most planted Italian varieties in Italy and Australia. Sangiovese is quite adaptable to its environment, and quite malleable in the winery, meaning you can get diversity of styles. In previous vintages I have made full bodied red wines and occasionally rosé from sangiovese, but for the 2024 vintage I was interested in making a lighter bodied, younger-drinking red wine.
Fruit was machine-harvested and de-stemmed into a stainless-steel open fermenter where it stayed for five days on skins. The wine was pressed before it had finished fermenting to limit extraction of tannin. After pressing the wine completed ferment in stainless steel, and once complete was transferred to neutral French oak puncheons for malolactic fermentation. The wines was blended and bottled without fining or filtering in at the end of November 2024.
Vino Novello is Italy’s answer to the famous French wine Beaujolais Nouveau, being a very light and fresh young wine. Novello essentially means new, and typically this Italian produced wine is intended to be consumed within a year of production. It can be made from a great many different varieties, but ultimately the concept is the same, novel or otherwise.
Jeni Port - Wine Companion
”A novello sangiovese that explodes in bright summertime cherries. Like crunching into fruit straight off the tree. Even the vivid cherry colour is in keeping with the theme. Brings cherry, raspberry, acacia florals and a splash of herbals to the glass and finishes all too easily.” 89 points
Huon Hooke - The Real Review
”Light russet colour, developed and pale, with an unfiltered appearance. Leaf litter, almost tobacco-like aromas, more in the rosé category than red wine, but quite beguiling. Complex, savoury, much more than simplistic primary fruit. Good intensity and depth of flavour, viscosity in the mouth and soft, light tannins. Very fine balance and great drinkability. Carpaccio, perhaps.” 89 points
