ORATORIO DI SAN LORENZO CARMENERE RISERVA

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COLLI BERICI DOC CARMENERE RISERVA

The Oratorio di San Lorenzo area is a small valley immersed in unspoiled nature, a mystical place where monks have lived for centuries. This is where Inama's Carmenere vineyard thrives, and “Oratorio di San Lorenzo” represents its highest expression.

“This is transparent and fresh with sliced raspberries, white pepper and dried flowers on the nose and palate. Fresh herbs like basil. Medium-bodied, refined and focused with an orange peel finish”. By James Suckling


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Grape

Carmenere 100%
Region

Veneto
Vintage

2020
ABV

12%
Tasting notes

The grape, very ripe, generates a very intense and persistent flavour. Deep nose of black berries, cocoa, pepper and other spices. Authoritative in the mouth, it shows superb balance with ripe tannins and a round, generous finish of rare length.
Food pairing

Grilled or smoked pork, zampone (pigs’ trotters) and cotechino. With local traditional dishes: Boiled meat and pearà, ossobuco with peas, polenta with sopressa vicentina DOC. With vegetables: Pasta with beans.
Area of production

The area of the Oratorio di San Lorenzo is a small valley surrounded by an unspoilt nature, a mystic place where monks lived in the past. The first vintage of this wine, 2004, expresses already what we expected: the uniqueness of a grape (Carmenere) that in the Colli Berici produces emotions which cannot be repeated elsewhere. The microclimate in this area is unique. The vineyard, is affected positively the influence of the adjacent forest, which gives organic substances like limestone and clay and gives origin to important temperature gaps. The area is often hot during the day and fresh at night.
Production process

Once the grapes arrive at the winery, they are gently destemmed to avoid breaking the skins, then further hand-sorted on a selection table. A pre-fermentation maceration is carried out, followed by alcoholic fermentation lasting 30-32
days in concrete vats. The wine is aged in French oak barriques, 30% new and 70% second-use, for 6 months. After
blending, the wine is returned to the barriques for an additional 6 months of aging.
Fun facts

The label represents the Oratorio di San Lorenzo, the church that looks out onto our vineyard of Carmenere. Projected into a dream-like dimension, the building takes on a broader significance: a dancer, balancing on a ball, turns her back on the church to face God, who offers her a heart. It is a juxtaposition between the sacred and the profane, of which wine is a metaphor. High up in the sky, the sun bathes the Oratorio, symbolizing the quest for perfect ripeness, key to our project with Carmenere.
Awards

Oratorio di San Lorenzo 2020
Vinous 94 pt.

Oratorio di San Lorenzo 2018
95 pt. Falstaff
94 pt. James Suckling
94 pt. Wine Advocate
96+ pt. Eros Teboni
GOLD MEDAL Wine Hunter
Mention “Top Wine” Slow Wine 2024
4 Viti AIS premio Fero

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