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 bolder 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 wine was blended and bottled without fining or filtering 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 bolder 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 wine was blended and bottled without fining or filtering 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.
