Maremma Toscana 2022 Doc Botrosecco Cabernet Magnum - Le Mortelle Antinori

Botrosecco is produced on the estate Le Mortelle, owned by Antinori in the heart of the Maremma a few kilometers from Castiglione of Pescaia. Acquired in the 1999 the family Antinori from the conviction that the area, still emerging, was highly suited to the production of high quality wines. The winery, partly underground on top of the hill overlooking the estate, was built with an eye to regard to the impact environmental. Built only with natural materials, it uses the thermoregulation of the rocks in the soil, and the wine production process is designed by "fall," with the harvest being taken to the upper floors after the grape harvest, to the winemaking to the aging that takes place in the basement floors in barriques that takes place in the basement floors.

The Botrosecco is the product of the estate's two most important types of vineyards, Cabernet Sauvignon, which constitutes its 60% and the Cabernet Franc which completes the whole. Harvested in September, the Cabernet Franc, which gives theelegance and the structure to the wine is harvested in the second half of the month, while Sauvignon, with its typical aroma of red fruit, ripens in the last week. The 170 hectares of vineyard soils are medium-textured, sandy and loamy with a siliceous-clay composition. Upon arrival at the winery, the best grapes are destemmed and gently crushed and brought to fermentation in tanks of steel stainless at a temperature of 25°C, then it is transferred to other tanks where fermentation takes place malolactic, completed by the end of the year. Before therefinement in the bottle the wine rests in barriques for 12 months.