Montemagro 2019 - Daniele Piccinin

Montemagro - Daniele Piccinin

Montemagro is a white wine that takes its name from the Monte where the vineyard is located. Lean precisely because of the composition of the dry and poor soil, where Durella found its environment. It comes from a selection of the best Durella grapes from the 60-year-old vineyards that come from the 4 Capitelli, Sottomarino, La Riva and Rivato parcels, of which Daniele does not want to know the yields, already low in themselves. Vinification in contact with the skins for a variable period based on the characteristics of the vintage. Fermentation in steel for 50% and wood for the remaining 50%. Refinement of 10 months in the same containers. Montemagro is a wine that has a remarkable wealth of aromas ranging from floral notes to officinal herbs, from fruit to spicy notes. The sip is enveloping, with good body, and excellent acidity given by Durella. 3000 bottles produced.

Service

We recommend tasting it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but left in the cellar a few years can give great emotions.

Pairing

Excellent with fish appetizers, pasta dishes, to try with a plate of prawn and zucchini skewers.

Cellar: Daniele Piccinin

Daniele Piccinin's company is located in San Giovanni Ilarione, in the province of Verona, in the Lessinia area northeast of Verona. Daniele Piccinin begins as a restaurateur, in fact, after graduating in hotel management he opens a restaurant with a friend that focuses on non-traditional research cuisine. Here he takes care of the room and at the same time is passionate about wine, and begins to make a real course of study to improve his oenological knowledge. One day he drinks an Angelino Maule wine and is so impressed that he decides to go and find it. He still remembers the simplicity with which Maule said to him "He crushes grapes and becomes wine". 4-5 years of attendance begin which will lead him to sell his part of the restaurant and buy land around an old family home. Vineyards of Chardonnay and above all of Durella, an endangered grape that has existed in these parts for over a thousand years. The first wine was born in 2006 from a blend of Durella Chardonnay, and until 2009 it vinifies in the Maule cellar until, in 2010, it produces its wine in its own cellar. Daniele's approach in the vineyard is absolutely natural. In the rows grow mint, summer and winter cereals, plantain, shamrock, alfalfa and dwarf pea, and the use of copper and sulfur is limited in the most serious cases, all this to allow nature to be in harmony with itself is to yes, from its wine you drink the territory, as it is. Today Daniele produces 15000 bottles divided into 3 wines; . the Bianco Muni composed of Chardonnay and Durella, straight and frank with an irresistible sip, Montemagro, a selection of the best Durella grapes from 60-year-old vineyards and Arione, a classic method with a very fine bubble based on Durella.