Specification: A combination of 50% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay and 15% Pinot Meunier, from numerous crus selected by the Winemaker and from almost ten different years. Lanson Black Label is further enhanced by three years resting in the cellar, including 6 months following disgorging, at which point it reaches perfect maturation.
Specification: On the nose, there are aromas of violets, roses and mint combined with cherries and spices such as cinnamon and cloves. Well-structured, fresh and full-bodied. Bonacosta comes from Masi vineyards in the hills of the historic Valpolicella Classico zone. The soil is red calcareous sediments on basalt. Following a light 15% green harvest, the grapes were harvested separately, first the Molinara and Rondinella, then the Corvina a week or two later. The must underwent fermentation at 25-28C, using selected yeasts. Contact with the skins lasted sixteen days for the Corvina and ten days for the other grapes. The fermentation lasted a total of twenty days and was followed by complete malolactic fermentation. The wine was aged for six months, 86% in large Slavonian oak barrels and 14% (Corvina only) in small new Allier and Slavonian oak casks. Though run by the Boscaini family for six generations, it is really in the last fifty years that Masi has established itself as one of the Venetos most innovative wine producers. In the late 1950s, they identified certain historic vineyard plots which are vinified as Amarone and bottled separately to this day. In 1964, they launched the now-legendary Campofiorin, which revived the technique of a second fermentation with semi-dried grapes. Masi have also rescued the ancient Oseleta variety from extinction, and continue to use it in two of their celebrated "Supervenetian" wines.
