2024 La Miraja Ruché
100% Ruché from La Miraja, a tiny 4-hectare estate producing roughly 2,500 cases annually. Fruit sourced from two historic parcels at 250 meters elevation: 40% from Majole vineyard (planted 1975, southwest exposure) and 60% from Santa Eufemia (planted 1992, eastern exposure). Majole is one of the first sites in Castagnole Monferrato planted specifically for single-varietal Ruché and is considered the epicenter of production. High-density plantings of 5,000 vines per hectare on calcareous-red clay soils, guyot-trained, with yields limited to 70 quintals per hectare. Organically farmed.
Regular price
$38.00
Regular price
Sale price
$38.00
Farming
Harvest
Hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and then crushed by basket press into stainless-steel tanks
Fermentation
Native fermentation occurs with 10 days skin contact; spontaneous malolactic fermentation follows
Aging
Wine rests in cement vessels for 3 months, then an additional 4 months in bottle prior to release
