Lazaro 2022 - Masiero

Lazaro - Masiero

Lazaro di Masiero is a macerated white wine made from 100% Garganega grapes. Spontaneous fermentation thanks to indigenous yeasts in ash wood barrels with maceration on the skins for 3 months, and aging in a Carrara marble barrel, followed by bottling without filtration and clarification. A wine with a good structure, slightly tannic, and with a great minerality typical of this very persistent volcanic territory.

Service

We recommend tasting it at a temperature around 10/12° C in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but left in the cellar for a few years can give great satisfaction.

Pairings

Perfect to accompany spicy cuisine, try it with risotto with chicken breast with curry cream.

Cellar: Masiero

The Masiero wine-growing company was born in 2000 by a wager from Franco, owner of the company, to produce Merlot in Selva, a town on the Trinité hills between the Dolomites and the Venetian plains, about 20 km. from Vicenza. A beautiful natural amphitheater that welcomes the vineyards Selva, placed on volcanic soil, where Merlot and Pinot Nero grapes are cultivated, and Sant'Urbano. Franco at the beginning of his adventure has a conventional vine cultivation approach but soon he realizes that this method undermined life within the vineyard. Thanks to the encounter with some wine-growing friends who were approaching the biodynamic approach, it has an illumination and pushes it to deepen the knowledge on the matter. The first vintage is in 2006 with Verdugo, only 3000 bottles of Merlot purity, and since 2014 is the beginning of a new project that tends to retrieve old vineyards of native varieties such as Garganega, Pinot Grigio, and Chardonnay. Today the Masiero line includes in addition to Verdugo, Lazaro Garganega white wine, and Urban red wine obtained from a Merlot and Cabernet Franc blend. Masiero wines are the natural expression of terroir.