2019 Cantine Morone Barbera 'Neropianna'

100% certified organic Barbera del Sannio. As with all of Cantina Morone´s wines, organic practices are followed in the vineyards. Intervention is minimal, and all grapes are harvested by hand. Fermentation is spontaneous using indigenous yeast. Maceration in steel for 20 days. Aged for 6 months in old, neutral wood. The wine is neither fined nor filtered before bottling.

Tasting Notes

Ruby red color with violet shades, full of berries, ripe red and pink fruit with a dry medium-body. 

About Cantina Morone

Cantina Morone is new, established in 2011 by brother-and-sister team Eleonora and Giovanni Morone. Giovanni and Eleonora are lucky to have Anna della Porta working as consulting enologist in the cellar. Anna has been friends with the Morone siblings since she was five years old. The farm isn’t new. Many of their Piedirosso vines are 25+ years old. The vineyards are roughly 300 meters above sea level, planted in rocky clay-limestone soil. Lots of rounded river bed stones. Eleonora and Giovanni’s father and grandfather worked the vineyards, and sold fruit in bulk to the local cantina sociale, which is the largest co-op in the south of Italy.  Anna della Porta had a very different vision. Immediately she told Signore Morone to stop irrigating and fertilizing with chemicals, to use biodynamic preparations instead of conventional products, and to do a green harvest (sometimes a second cluster thinning, too.) Yields dropped to 35 hectoliters per hectare. The tractor became rarely used: to keep the soil less compacted. Rows filled with wild grasses and legumes. The resultant change in the quality of the wine has been marked.