Montecorneo 2023 Travento IGT Umbria Rosso

Travento is a fresh, medium-bodied Merlot made in a "millefeuile" style, where destemmed grapes are layered with whole clusters in a tank before press, in order to create a delicate style of wine that nonetheless yields more substance than a carbonic maceration approach (for example). Crunchy, with pretty fruit and medium tannins. 

Notes from the Montecorneo website: Harvested during the coolest hours of the day. In the cellar, we destem a portion and compose the steel fermentation tank with a "thousand-leaf" layering. We alternate a layer with stems and a layer without stems, and once the assembly is complete, we close the fermentation tank, without ever opening it. At the end of the alcoholic fermentation, we open and drain, then the aging continues in steel. Bottling takes place the following spring.

The label is a painting by Francesco seen and taken in his studio on Rue Rivoli, very small and very powerful thanks to the clarity of the line in its single color. Travento is so named after having just escaped a hailstorm in 2020, thanks to the orientation of the rows that allowed the bunches to survive. It ferments this way because we like to return the flesh of the Merlot to the wine, not its skins.

Label artwork by Francesco 59