MASARI

Masari — the eponymous wine of the estate — is the most considered and most complete expression of the Agno Valley's capacity for serious red wine production from Bordeaux varieties. A careful selection of Cabernet and Merlot from the clayey-limestone soils of the estate's red wine vineyards, it represents the excellence of the Agno Valley in a register that the estate's more internationally familiar variety palette makes broadly accessible without sacrificing the territorial specificity that the valley's unusual geological character reliably provides.

The blend draws on the classical Bordelaise variety combination — Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc alongside Merlot — in proportions determined by the specific character of each vintage. The clayey-limestone soils of the Agno Valley's red wine sections provide a richer, more complex mineral foundation than the volcanic-dominant sections that give the estate's whites and the Leon sparkling wine their distinctive character, producing red wines of greater textural weight and aromatic depth.

On the nose, the eponymous wine presents a broad and complex range: fresh hints of small ripe red fruits and white peach — an unexpected combination that reflects the Agno Valley's cool climate influence — alongside elegant aromas of spices and aromatic herbs that carry the herbal richness of the valley's specific botanical environment. This breadth of aromatic reference, from fruit through herbs to spice, is the defining quality of the wine and the most immediate evidence of its terroir specificity.

The Masari estate's name on this bottle is both a statement of identity and a declaration of ambition — the wine that represents the estate's full range of values and capabilities in a single, carefully composed expression.

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