MARU – Negroamaro Salento IGT – Castello Monaci

MARU – Negroamaro Salento IGT- Castello Monaci

Full-bodied, Intense, Spicy

Maru was one of the first products of Castello Monaci; it is a single variety based on one of the most important autochthonous ones of the territory: the Negroamaro. A controversy is open on the meaning of the name of the vine: some believe that it is the repetition of the word black in two languages: “niger” in Latin and “mavros” in Greek; others say that bitterness indicates that herbaceous and often slightly rough sense of the wine aftertaste. Maru in the Salento dialect means “severe”, “dark” due to a certain austerity that the vine itself tends to express.

VINIFICATION AND AGING
The harvest takes place manually in the early hours of the morning during the second decade of September. After being pressed, the grapes ferment at a controlled temperature in steel tanks with maceration of 10 days and scheduled pumping over. At the end of the malolactic fermentation, part of the wine matures for 6 months in second and third passage French barriques, while the remainder remains in steel.

ALLERGENS: Contains sulphites

TASTING: Ruby-garnet red color; on the nose, it has a very intense and harmonious aroma, with notes reminiscent of the Mediterranean scrub and eucalyptus and a hint of small black berries and tobacco. In the mouth, it has a full, savory, mineral and velvety flavor even if slightly bitter, round and with an excellent structure.

Recommended with: perfect match with horse stew with sauce; highly recommended with pasta (sagne ‘ncannulate), meatballs with sauce, chickpea soup, roasted or stewed red meats (lamb and small kid).

Alcohol: 13,00%