The two grapes which make Nero Magis – Merlot and Pignolo – are harvested and vinified at different times, starting with Merlot which ripens earlier. Then macerated in wooden vats, where they complete both alcoholic and malolactic fermentation.
First harvested in 2014, part of the wines are put in new barriques and part in second-fill barriques, where they stay for twenty-four months before coming together to form Nero Magis. This is followed by lengthy ageing in the bottle.
A wine in which Pignolo’s robustness, assertive personality and spicy notes blend with Merlot’s fruity notes. The palate reveals a surprising fusion between the rigour of the former and the agreeable hints of the latter.
The glass is the required tool for “listening” to the music of wine. Just like the wrong temperature, the wrong glass can negatively alter the nose and palate. If it’s the right glass, we can get on intimate terms with the wine, a compulsory passage to understanding its soul, its essence, before we love it completely. Otherwise we risk ruining years of work in the vineyard and cellar. Hence the choice of a Riedel Extreme Cabernet glass, which brings out the wine’s irresistible charm to the full.
A monovarietal Pignolo.
Macerated in wooden vats, where it completes both alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. At least twenty-four months in new barriques followed by a long period of ageing in the bottle, at least eighteen months. Periodical tastings reveal when it is ready for release.
This is a linear, heavyweight wine full of vigour – for its assertive but well-knit tannins – with olfactory notes dominated by spices, echoed by exceptional length. A wine with the gift of longevity. Therefore, a wine to wait for.
The glass is the required tool for “listening” to the music of wine. Just like the wrong temperature, the wrong glass can negatively alter the nose and palate. If it’s the right glass, we can get on intimate terms with the wine, a compulsory passage to understanding its soul, its essence, before we love it completely.
Otherwise we risk ruining years of work in the vineyard and cellar. Hence the choice of a Riedel Extreme Cabernet glass, which brings out the wine’s irresistible charm to the full.
Bianco Magis stems from the desire to give white wine from Friuli Venezia Giulia a new interpretation, seeking greater complexity not only through careful selection in the vineyard, but also by giving it time to mature completely. In keeping with the Magis philosophy – to be unique and universal – we have combined Friulano, indigenous to and representative of the Region, with Chardonnay and Pinot Bianco, which are international in style. This long-living wine maintains its elegance and freshness, its firm backbone and long aromatic persistence. The 2019 harvest is the first.
The three grape varieties were harvested by hand at different times, at their peak of ripeness.
The wines were left to mature separately, a part in barrels and a part in stainless steel. They were kept on the lees for about 12 months with periodic bâtonnage (stirring to cause the noble lees present on the bottom of the containers to rise and encourage autolysis of the yeasts, which gives the wine more complex aromas and taste), they were then assembled in October 2020.
Bianco Magis was bottled at the end of November 2020 and marketed a few months later, in March 2021, enabling to achieve the required maturity using an “ingredient” as precious as it is irreplaceable: time.
