Tasting Note
Ruby red with violet glints. Red fruit and spice, with soft, elegant tannins, good structure and lovely complexity.
Drink it with: salami and antipasti, pasta with rich sauces, red meats or mature cheeses.
The Winemaking
Eight to ten days on the skins, then fermentation in stainless steel. Six months in steel and three in bottle before release. No oak.
The Vineyards
Vines averaging around 30 years old on limestone and clay hillsides facing south and south-east, at about 200 metres, a stone's throw from the sea.
The Producer
Mora & Memo is a small estate in the hills of south-east Sardinia, run by mother and daughter Alicia and Lia Tolaini. They focus on the island's own Cannonau and Vermentino, with old vines, minimal intervention and labels by Sardinian artist Katia Marcias.
The Details
Tasting Note
Ruby red with violet glints. Red fruit and spice, with soft, elegant tannins, good structure and lovely complexity.
Drink it with: salami and antipasti, pasta with rich sauces, red meats or mature cheeses.
The Winemaking
Eight to ten days on the skins, then fermentation in stainless steel. Six months in steel and three in bottle before release. No oak.
The Vineyards
Vines averaging around 30 years old on limestone and clay hillsides facing south and south-east, at about 200 metres, a stone's throw from the sea.
The Producer
Mora & Memo is a small estate in the hills of south-east Sardinia, run by mother and daughter Alicia and Lia Tolaini. They focus on the island's own Cannonau and Vermentino, with old vines, minimal intervention and labels by Sardinian artist Katia Marcias.
The Details