STATTI RELAUNCHES THE NOVELLO

Bringing the Novello wine back to the dignity of Beaujolais Nouveaux. If in Italy, in fact, the consumption and notoriety of Novello have literally collapsed, in France this typology maintains its interest. So why not try to relaunch it? It is from this dream that Antonio and Alberto Statti set out to arrive at the "Novello di Nuova Generazione" , as they define it. The first fruit of the 2021 harvest wants to be a wine with a precise character, it will be sold at a price that relaunches its image and will be found on the tables of restaurants and wine bars starting from 10 November. Obtained 100% from Merlot grapes with carbonic maceration , the technique introduced for the first time by Louis Pasteur in 1861, does not want to be a bottle for nostalgics of the past but, on the contrary, a modern alternative for those who love fruity, fresh drinking. it's pleasant.

Modern in packaging, with Vinolok cap and fuchsia capsule, which recalls the purple color of wine, this Novello is a celebration of the moment, a carpe diem that stands out from the world of wines designed for aging. The parallel is with the French twin beaujolais nouveau: just as the production of the French novello provides 100% Gamay grapes and 100% carbonic maceration, so Statti produces the Novello from 100% Merlot grapes totally vinified with carbonic maceration. A courageous choice because in Italy the disciplinary allows to call Novello also wines with only 40% of carbonic maceration wine.

This process requires that the grapes are not pressed but closed in a container in an oxygen-free environment, saturated with carbon dioxide, where an anaerobic process of intracellular alcoholic fermentation takes place.

«The Novello is a wine that has a strong significance in the history of peasant culture, which we wish to preserve - Says Antonio Statti -. Our Novello wants to relaunch this category of wines, which deserve a place at the table and must be produced with attention and respect. "

Novello 2021 is produced 100% from Merlot grapes and 100% from carbonic maceration. It shines in the glass with a lively ruby color. The intense and typical scent of red berries and sweet flowers is expressed in a fresh and soft taste.

At the center of the Plain of Lamezia Terme , the agricultural heart of Calabria, the Statti family has been the custodian, since 1700, of a five-hundred-hectare farm, a cross-section of a peasant reality of the past in which olive trees are placed side by side with vines, citrus groves and dairy cattle breeding. As Alberto and Antonio Statti repeat, working here means producing complex vital energy , integrating more and more the different crops in a harmonious way . A symphony of life , rather than the solo of wine or oil, milk or citrus fruits.