Alta Langa 2020

Alta Langa is one of the latest projects to come from Mauro’s imaginative mind. “Avremo” is an acronym arising from a merger of the first two letters of the names of the three vineyards from which the grapes come: AVene, REmondà and MOrtizzo. If at first glance this name refers to precise territorial areas, it also has a much deeper significance. “Avremo” is the future tense of a verb, including the personal pronoun “we” (i.e. we will have), suggesting the idea of a family, a community of people, strongly united in order to achieve great results. The three vineyards, Avene, Remondà and Mortizzo, are situated between 420 m and 550 m in altitude, the grape varieties are Pinot Nero and Chardonnay, all vineyards are polyclonal and some of them have up to 4 different clones. The grapes from the vineyards are harvested, vinified and matured separately. They are pressed whole in a pneumatic press. Roughly a third of the Pinot Nero and Chardonnay musts are fermented in wooden barrels, preferably second-use ones. The slow secondary fermentation (prise de mousse) and the subsequent ageing in bottle for a minimum period of 30 months precede disgorgement and packing.