Vino di Anna Vino Rosso CR 2021 750ml

Organic, with biodynamic practices. 95% Nerello Mascalese, 5% Nerello Cappuccio, Grenache, and Grecanico This wine is drawn from two vineyards at the heart of the Vino di Anna estate in Contrada Crasa (“CR”), fermented together. ‘Vigna Jules,’ the first vineyard purchased by producers Anna and Eric in 2010, is a .45 ha plot of 90 year-old bush vines. Principally planted to Nerello Mascalese, it has deep red and brown silty soils. The grapes from this vineyard give depth and complexity. ‘Vigna Gaspard,’ the second vineyard here, is an amphitheater of terraces planted next to the winery in 2014-15. A massale selection of vines was made from a reputable old vineyard; the cuttings were planted own-rotted in the tradition quincunx, a high-density format. All the vines are trained in the albarello style, with aingle chestnut wooden stakes. Soils here are darker in color, basalt and clay. The vineyard is principally Nerello Mascalese with small amounts of Cappuccio, Grenache, and Grecanico. This young vineyard provides the wine with its freshness and vibrancy. Fruit was destemmed by hand into a 30hL open-top, old wooden fermenter. Grapes were foot-trodden or hand-pressed regularly during a two week period on skins. After pressing, the wine was placed in a used 20hL wooden cask where it underwent malolactic fermentation, then left on lees until bottling in fall of ‘22. Unfined, unfiltered.