AROMA: cherry and marasca cherry, with scents of Mediterranean scrub.
TASTE: well-developed, elegant and persuasive.
FOOD MATCHINGS: ideal with meat, pasta, cheese and game dishes.
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 16-18 °C.
SERVING METHOD: serve in large, long-stemmed glasses and uncork, if possible, a few minutes before drinking.
GRAPES: Mainly Merlot and in a small percentage Cabernet Franc.
HARVESTING: by hand.
VINIFICATION: in small containers to extract desirable substances from the grape skins. Fermentation, performed with natural yeasts on the skins to capture the character of the territory to the full, lasts for about 20 days with brief punching down and brief pumping.
MATURATION: the wine ages in cement tanks and during this period is racked three times to clarify and stabilize.
BOTTLING: carried out without clarification or filtration processes to maintain organoleptic qualities to the full.
Elegant wine of extreme softness derived from our soils bathed by the Cornia river.
Nero Calestro is the innovative expression of sweet drinking, from the marly soil where it is born, arrives in glasses with a ruby red colour that tends to an intense black.
