Muraje Carema Sumie 2020

2020 Nebbiolo "Sumie" Carema DOCGMurajeThe grapes are 100% Nebbiolo (Picotendro biotype) from vines which are on average 50 years old and are trained using the ancient ‘pergola caremese’ (‘topie’ in local dialect) method. The grapes for Sumié wine always come from all the vineyards suitable for the production of Carema wine spread across the different areas of the municipality. The grapes were harvested and sorted manually in the middle of October in small boxes of 20 kg. The grapes were de-stemmed and pressed as soon as they arrived in cellar, and the must went into 15 hl concrete tank for spontaneous alcoholic fermentation. The must was pushed down manual once or twice daily until the end of fermentation. The maceration on the skins lasted till the end of December 2020, when after the racking and the pouring off, the wine was put in exhausted tonneau and barrique. The wine underwent spontaneous malolactic fermentation in the spring and immediately after was racked in early summer 20