Messer Otto 2021

Other than the Messer Oto terroir, which sits on calcareous alluvium, their remaining terroirs are composed of primarily black to dark brown volcanic clay soils and extremely friable tuff (lithified volcanic pyroclastic debris) with varying levels of topsoil depth and soil grain composition of rock, sand and clay. Their entire range comes from massale selection Aglianicos. Destemmed, their reds undergo 14 to 45-day skin maceration and fermentation periods in steel (with Liscone 20-30 days, Bauccio 30-45 days, and Drogone 40-45 days), followed by aging in a mix of steel and 500L French oak barrels for two to five years; the reds are neither fined nor filtered, while the rosé and white are.