NEGRES

Negres is the Pinot Noir red of the Brandolini Winery — a wine produced only in favourable vintages that demonstrates how the world's most geographically sensitive red variety expresses itself in the specific conditions of the Oltrepò Pavese hills south of the Po. The Brandolini family's 150-year relationship with Pinot Noir in this territory — a variety that arrived in Oltrepò Pavese in the nineteenth century and found in these clay-limestone Apennine foothill soils a character of genuine distinction — allows them to produce a wine of real quality in the years that qualify.

The production process reflects the care that Pinot Noir demands: pressed grapes fermented in contact with skins for approximately fifteen days — a moderate maceration period that extracts the colour and aromatic complexity of the variety without the aggressive tannin extraction that heavier-handed production would impose. Pinot Noir's naturally soft tannin structure is one of its most valued qualities; the fifteen-day maceration is calibrated to develop structure while preserving the silky texture that distinguishes the variety from more robustly tannic reds.

The wine presents as garnet red — the characteristic colour of mature Pinot Noir that has developed its chromatic depth through fermentation and ageing. A clear nose with morello cherry and currant: the dark cherry and red berry fruit combination that defines Pinot Noir's aromatic identity in its most complete expressions. Elegant and rich on the palate, with currants, balsamic sensations, and light spice — the aromatic complexity that the variety develops through fermentation and ageing on a wine of real quality.

Balanced, warm, with good structure: the three palatal qualities that the Brandolini Pinot Noir achieves in the favourable vintages that earn the Negres label. A wine of genuine elegance from a variety and a family both deeply connected to the Oltrepò Pavese tradition.

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