Mataburro 2024 Mura Mura

Notes from the importer...
This wine is made from several separate components, the result of which is a blend of Grenache Noir, Merlot, Mourvèdre, Muscat à Petits Grains, and Muscat d'Alexandrie. The Merlot and Muscat à Petits Grains were picked at the same time in early August, macerated together for 2-3 days, and then the combined juice was pressed. The Muscat d'Alexandrie was picked into two tanks. Whole bunches went into one and destemmed grapes into the other. Both tanks were macerated for several days and then pressed and kept separate. The next component was Grenache Noir, which was macerated (whole bunch) for two days. It was then pressed and also kept separate. The final component was some Mourvèdre from a vineyard with distinctive dark black soils. This year, inexplicably, the grapes refused to budge beyond a certain point of ripeness for over a month and so, despite most of the harvest being in August, including all the other components for this wine, it was not picked until mid September, mainly to save it from being completely eaten by birds! Eventually the separate components were racked and blended to made a the wine (it seems a bit like the completion of a jigsaw puzzle!). 15% of it spent time in a large old Stockinger barrel and the rest in fibreglass.