Cantina Concarena
Winegrowers in Vallecamonica
Vineyards and Winery:
This is our story, it speaks of vineyards, land, passion, wine.
Concarena..
..is the mountain that gives its name and stands as the symbol of our company. It indicates the place where we grow our grapes. Its alluvial cones are the soil that gives life to our wines. All our vineyards are here, between the village of Cemmo and the village of Ono San Pietro. And so is our winery.
The Vineyards..
..are all located in the northernmost alluvial cone of Mount Concarena in Vallecamonica. The vineyards are positioned on the “sunny” slope, the first to receive the morning sun. Here the soil is skeletal, characterized by limestone, gypsum deposits and calcareous marls. In the northernmost cone we also find slate and tuff. The climate is harsh in winter, mild in summer. In autumn we experience powerful day/night temperature swings. Together with the soil, the climate is the second element that makes our wines unique.
Our work..
..is mainly about understanding the vineyard, the land and the climate through our actions. Agronomic practices become adaptive year by year, according to and in respect of the vintage. Every year changes, every vintage is different. It is the result of the climate, of the plants’ reaction to it, of our ability to understand its balance and interpret it in our WINES.
The Videt grape..
..is Riesling Renano. A grape variety that loves cold weather and extreme temperature swings. Its charm lies in elegance, minerality and longevity. It is surprising how it expresses itself at its best with the cold at the end of the season, and how it can wait and ripen on the vine well beyond classic white grape varieties. Often evolving into noble rot, at least in part. This peculiarity makes it unique, long-lived and increasingly fascinating over time.
The Burzol grapes..
...are Marzemino. A tough and stubborn grape variety, late-ripening, slow to mature, resistant to harsh conditions. Its skin is thick, resilient. Very rich. In Vallecamonica it expresses itself very well, benefiting from the late-season temperature swings. It is a late grape in a late land, harvested from mid-October onwards. It is the grape we feel represents Vallecamonica not only by vocation but also by tradition.
The grapes for our traditional method..
..come from a single vineyard, one hectare in total, divided 70% Chardonnay and 30% Pinot Noir. It is the latest-ripening vineyard, located in a cold hollow on a strip of gypsum, stressful for the vine, qualitative for traditional method grapes. It is a bet that began in 2016, with the first graftings from Merlot (not suitable in our opinion for that vineyard) to Chardonnay, and continued in 2018 with the grafting of Pinot Noir.
The Winery..
..is where all our grapes are vinified. Here the most delicate phase takes place: expressing the uniqueness of the land and the vintage in a wine that is its direct consequence, without alterations and without forcing. Here ONLY our grapes and ALL our grapes become our wines. And if it hails, so be it, we accept producing less wine, period. This way we can create wines that are completely honest about the organoleptic qualities of what wine is to us: a fermented fruit (the grape), that must best express who cultivated it, where, and how.
Our wines..
..are the result of everything we have described so far. Climate, land, grape varieties, work, passion and understanding. Difficult to explain them all at once, every vintage has its story, we prefer to describe them year by year, wine by wine.
