VINEYARD AND WINE CELLAR:
Here our history: it talks about vineyard, land, passion and wine
Concarena..
... is the name and the symbol of our firm. It suggests the place in which we grow our grapes. It is the land that gives life to our wines. All our vineyard are here, between Cemmo and Ono San Pietro. Such as our wine cellar.
THE VINEYARDS..
.. are all in Vallecamonica, in the Concarena northern conoid. The vineyards are located on the sunny side, the first that gets the morning sun. Here the terrain is marked out of old limestone, result of millennial sedimentations. Climate is cold in winter, temperate in the summer season. During the autumn there are a lot of temperature leaps day/night. Valuable for our grapes..
Our Job..
... is first of all to understand the vineyard, the land and the climate. We conform our agronomist activities, we learn year by year our vineyard, we test, we search for the equilibrium between climate, land, nature and human needs. Every year changes, every vintage is different to the other. It is the result of climate, it depends on the plant response, on our comprehension of the different equilibrium and be able to read it into our wines.
VIDET grapes..
.. are Renan Riesling. A vineyard that loves cold temperatures and extreme temperature leaps. Its appeal is elegance, minerality and longevity. Surprise how it lasts cold temperatures, it waits and grows up on the plant over the other white grapes vineyard. This peculiarity makes it unique, enduring and more fascinating as time goes by.
BARABANT grapes..
.. are Marzemino and Merlot. More or less 60% of Marzemino and 40% of Merlot. These are vineyard different one to the other but, in our opinion, complementary. Marzemino is leathery and hardheaded, it grows up later and slowly, it lasts to the harshness. Full of wealth. In Vallecamonica it expresses itself benefiting from the end-season temperature leaps. Instead, Merlot is an international noble vineyard. Wherever you plant it, it expresses the land that hosts it. And in Vallecamonica it can express itself.
The harvesting period..
.. is variable and changes year by year. By and large we can tell that in Vallecamonica the grape harvest is late. Grapes grow up on the plant and every add day enriches them. Because of the marked temperature leaps, our wines are always characterized by these two key elements: acidity and perfumes. The first one persists with cold although the grapes ripening and perfumes are fixed in the grape without be dispersed. Remind that acidity means freshness and longevity in white wines, especially in Renan Riesling. Concerning the red wines, when ageing, smell them and taste them.
Wine cellar..
.. where the wine-making of all our grapes takes place. Here innovation and traditions meet up. Here our grapes become our wines. Here there are only steel barrels. An easy-sterilized raw material: it doesn?t deduct neither give anything to the grapes. In that way we can fulfill a wine-making completely honest about the organoleptic qualities of what we think wine is: a fruit (the grape) that ferments. What is the grape will be the wine. The Videt wine-making takes place at low temperatures, between 18 and 16 degrees, the Barabant one between 22 and 25 degrees with variable steeping from 7 to 15 days ? for the grapes of Marzemino submitted to the drying process, news 2014.
Our wines..
.. are the result of all we told till now. Climate, land, vineyard, work, passion and comprehension. It is difficult to explain them all at once, every year has its history, we prefer to depict them year by year, wine by wine.
