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Di Majo Norante Don Luigi Riserva Molise 2016 (750ml)
Price: $49.99
Sale Price: $34.95
It’s full and layered. A little old-school, but delicious in it’s concentrated, old style.
| Producer | Di Majo Norante Don Luigi Riserva Molise |
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| Country | Italy |
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| Region | Molise |
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| Subregion | Campomarino |
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| Varietal | Red |
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| Vintage | 2016 |
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| Sku | 18918 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Rated 91 Points by James Suckling
Lots of dried fruit with walnuts and spices. Some dark chocolate. It’s full and layered. A little old-school, but delicious in it’s concentrated, old style. Drink now.
Di Majo Norante Don Luigi Riserva Molise 2016
Red wine Don Luigi is the flagship product of our winery. It is a wine made from carefully selected best and the most mature grapes of Montepulciano.
Wine & Food Pairings
Ideal with red meats, game, haute cuisine dishes, cheeses. Serving temperature: 18°C. Ideally, the bottle should be uncorked at least one hour before serving.
Grape Variety: 100% Montepulciano
Vinification
It is traditionally vinified through long contact of the must with the skins. It ages in small oak barrels. The wine is made of Montepulciano grapes grown in the Martarosa territory 100 meters above sea level in the heart of DOC Molise.
The calcareous soil gives structure and body to the wine, the young vines and espalier system allow you to perform the harvest in late October and during the first week of November.
Molise Region
In the Molise region, wine has traditions dating back to the Sannites and Romans, the first to introduce grape growing. Production methods are those passed down through the generations in the southern Apennines, constantly tied to the farming world. The Masseria Di Majo Norante is located north of the Gargano promontory in the district of Ramitello, in the countryside of Campomarino, where the loose, partially sandy soil and summer breezes combine to create a particularly favourable environment. Alessio Di Majo, a determined and somewhat innovative wine-maker, sacrificed productivity and uniformity of flavour in a constant quest for quality and distinctive characteristics, in the firm conviction that southern vines are the best suited to the pedoclimatic conditions of the Molise countryside.
Di Majo Norante Don Luigi Riserva Molise Description
Di Majo Norante
Di Majo Norante has been making wine from grapes ever since 1800, as is evidenced by the old cellars underneath the square and in the old family building at Campomarino. Commitment to grape growing was inherited first of all by Luigi and then by Alessio Di Majo and continues today alongside research and experimentation. Di Majo Norante produces its own wines from grapes grown in the 85 hectare vineyard of the ancient fief of the Marquises Norante di Santa Cristina.
The modern cellar will soon be flanked by a barrel store which was originally a 17th-cent. stone granary. The reason for this is that the Di Majo Norante wine-making philosophy is consistent with a traditional approach to grape growing and wine production, centered on preserving all the characteristics of Mediterranean wine-making.
A Commitment To Nature
New Wines From Old Vines
The selection of clones of native vines through the study of their adaptability to the southern soil is at the origin of all Di Majo Norante wines. Grapes from ancient vines such as Aglianico, Montepulciano, Sangiovese and Tintilia are used for the production of red wines. Falanghina and Greco are used for the production of white wines; Moscato reale is used for the Apianae Passito. The great results achieved experimenting with these vines have prompted the company to continue along this brave path that perfectly satisfies the complex needs of contemporary taste.
Methods That Respect Nature
Biorganic As A Way of Living
We focus all our energies in safeguarding our environment and to work following the laws of nature.
Our objective, when cultivating our grapes, is to maintain and underpin the biodiversity of the vineyards, the term biodiversity intended as all forms of life present in the latter; plants, animals, insects and all micro-organisms. For this reason, since many years now we have embraced a biological and organic viticulture. We only use natural forms of fertilizers (mi piaceva di più manure alla francese ma è uguale) and non-invasive insect repellents. In all our vineyards we leave grass and flowers to naturally blossom, in order to have a balanced soil, but also maintain the natural environment for native microorganism and predator insects of various parasites. Such technique also allows a better drainage of water through the soil, with less waste of it and/or the erosion caused by heavy rain or winds.
Our production is kept at low yields and manual selection is carried out through the various stages of the vine development, thus achieving the best quality possible from each plant. Such selection and pruning allow only the best bunches of grapes to arrive at harvest, the healthier and stronger ones. Thanks to this approach but also a balanced management of foliage all grapes ripen to the best of their potential.
We take care of our vineyards with the maximum attention and professionalism but also with Love.
In the cellar we are dedicated to exalting all the potential of the grapes, employing the most modern technology. Over the years we have become even more sensitive to sustain our environment, using for example purified water from our estate for irrigation, but also investing in solar power, an energy largely available in nature in our region. In the future we will become more than ever self-sufficient for our energy, for us safeguarding our environment is a choice and a need to ensure our future and a part of our estate philosophy.
