Muratori: Franciacorta evolving, between identity and new vision

A long wooden inlaid table in the privée room, lined glasses, warm light and a nod to Japanese essentiality: this was the setting that hosted, in the contemporary spaces of Zuma Rome, the tasting of the Muratori Winery.

Muratori: family identity and territorial vision

Founded in 1999, Muratori is a family business, which works exclusively on its own grapes, grown today on about 60 hectares distributed in all six Franciacorta Vocational Units.

A choice not random but strategic, aimed at representing in the glass the entire pedoclimatic complexity of the territory.

Moraine hills, fluvioglacial soils, different exposures-each parcel is a piece that gives way to an almost sartorial work.

Villa Crespia: technology and sustainability

A Villa Crespia, the production heart of the company, everything is designed to enhance this diversity: a structure developed on three levels up to twenty meters below ground, exploiting the gravity for the movement of musts and guarantees a constant natural microclimate.

All this with an eye always on sustainability: from water management with drip irrigation to an innovative agrivoltaic system that makes the estate energy self-sufficient.

Five wines to tell the story of evolution

A journey of more than 25 years that has regained energy and a new direction starting in 2020, with the arrival of Riccardo Cotarella whose enological guidance has brought an even more rigorous and contemporary approach.

The result? Wines that do not try to please everyone, but to tell something.
And this is what emerged during the lunch at Zuma’s, through five labels, each with a precise role within the range, but which all together represented a journey within a Franciacorta that is undergoing a phase of profound and conscious evolution.

The tasting hosted selected industry experts who attentively followed the storytelling and listened to the wines in the glass, actively contributing their views on Franciacorta wines.

Franciacorta Brut

Score: 89/100
Average price: $22.50

80% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Noir, 10% Pinot Blanc. Classic method, 18 months on the lees.
Fine and persistent perlage. Straw yellow. Fruity and floral notes complemented by herbs, spearmint and fern. Harmonious, immediate, able to synthesize freshness and balance without sacrificing personality. Fresh, savory mouthfeel of great finesse with a long, elegant finish. It is considered the entry wine into the Muratori world, and represents the synthesis of all their vocational units.

Franciacorta Satèn

Score: 92/100
Average price: €26.00

100% Chardonnay. Classic method, 36 months on the lees.
Fine and persistent perlage. Straw yellow. Fresh and citrusy nose, with hints of yellow fruit, medlar, peach, notes of bread crust and broom. The palate works on the matter and caress of the sip: silky, enveloping, with that creaminess that makes it easy to approach.

Franciacorta Rosé

Score: 93/100
Average price: €29.00

90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay. Classic method, 36 months on the lees.
Pale pink, dense and fast perlage. Fragrant, crisp aromas of strawberry and currant. Taut and fresh on the palate, pleasant, composed. The Rosé, refined and elegant, plays on the encounter between Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, offering a subtle profile, never excessive, where finesse is the real thread.

Franciacorta Blanc de Noirs Dosaggio Zero Cisiolo sa

Score: 94/100
Average price: €39.00

100% Pinot noir. Classic method, 24 months on the lees.
Fine and persistent perlage. Straw yellow. Fresh nose of green apple, pear, citrus, wild strawberries, peach blossom, custard. Mouth consistent, vertical, taut and dynamic, pleasantly citrusy and persistent. Here the tone changes. It is a direct wine, without mediation. Pinot Noir expresses itself in purity, without dosage, allowing tension, acidity and depth to emerge.

Franciacorta Millesimato Extra Brut Millé 2021

Score: 94/100
Average price: $42.00

100% Chardonnay. Classic method for about 40 months.
Fine and persistent perlage. Straw yellow. A forthright and clean, citrusy nose with notes of dried fruit, peach blossom and grandmother’s cake. Certainly still very young, it portends a sip with great balance: creaminess and tension, depth and lightness, matter and verticality.

He was the real star of the meeting with Muratori: presented in the preview during this very tasting, represents today the true flagship of their production. It comes from a rigorous selection of grapes, with special attention to the Hillside chardonnay, and by a long aging on the lees that builds structure, complexity and precision.

It is a wine that does not close a path, but opens it: the Millé 2021 more than any other tells of the new direction taken by the Muratori winery, which has chosen to evolve without losing the link with the territory, raising the bar without giving up its own identity.

He does not seek special effects, but works on subtraction, cleanliness and definition.