“Messorio” Rosso Toscana IGT 2022

Az. Agr. Le Macchiole | Tuscany
Le Macchiole s.a. s.s. | Via Bolgherese 189a | IT 57022 Castagneto Carducci

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In 1994, Eugenio Campolmi made a decision that sounded like a declaration of war. Merlot – one of the most widely planted grape varieties in Bolgheri and on the Tuscan coast, the most widely planted in the world – was to become a wine that was as far removed as possible from everything that Merlot normally means: pleasing, soft, predictable. "A thoroughbred that wants to win the race" is how the house describes its goal to this day. The name – messorio, Tuscan for the wheat harvest, once the most important moment of the farming year – has become a metaphor for what the grape harvest can be: a moment that decides everything.

Eugenio Campolmi died in 2002 and Cinzia Merli, his wife, took over the estate and the convictions. She has not toned them down. 800 grams of grapes per vine, triple selection in the vineyard and on the sorting table, fermentation in concrete, 18 to 20 months in new French barriques. No intervention to slow down the thoroughbred. 2022 was the year of the long harvest. It began on 9 August with the Chardonnay and only ended on 22 September with the Cabernet Sauvignon – almost seven weeks because the heat of the summer kept the berries small and allowed them to ripen unevenly. More analyses, more parcel selection, more decisions than in other years. Rain and falling temperatures in mid-August saved the red varieties – and gave the Messorio that dark freshness that makes 2022 one of its most interesting vintages.

Intense, deep ruby red colour. Black plum, blackberry, juniper berry, black tea, incense on the nose – dark, complex, with a depth that is layered. Full-bodied and powerful on the palate, with silky, dense tannins, a fresh acidity that carries the weight and a very long, mineral final. The thoroughbred – 2022 has not tamed it. SUPERIORE.DE