Muri-Gries Lagrein 2024 - 0,75l

Muri-Gries Lagrein 2024 is a dry Lagrein from Alto Adige, with blackberry, violet and cocoa shaped by the Gries district of Bolzano and gravel clay soils. That local detail matters in the glass. It feels dark, floral and immediate. The short oak and stainless steel aging shows as cocoa, clean berry fruit and a fresh edge.

About the Wine
The 2024 Muri-Gries Lagrein comes from Bolzano's Gries district, the historic home ground for the grape inside Alto Adige. The vineyard information points to gravel and clay, a combination that suits the wine's compact blackberry fruit and firm colour. Muri-Gries farms under sustainable certification, so the vineyard story here is more than a label line. The Bolzano basin gives this red a warm dark-fruit feel, then the mountain setting brings a violet lift that reads clearly in the glass. After fermentation, the wine receives short aging in oak barrels and stainless steel. That choice fits this 2024 bottling neatly. The oak side appears as a measured cocoa note. The stainless steel side carries the blackberry and violet notes with a clean snap. It is dry, with 13.5% alcohol and a texture that feels polished rather than glossy. The final pour is deep ruby red, with a dark rim and a faint stony scent in the background.

Tasting Notes
Deep ruby red in the glass, this Muri-Gries Lagrein 2024 looks almost inky at the centre and bright at the rim. The nose opens with blackberry and black cherry, then violet, cocoa powder and a cool stony note that recalls volcanic rock. On the palate, it feels velvety and dry with fine acidity running through the dark fruit and the 13.5% alcohol sits in a medium-bodied frame. The mineral note gives the cocoa a savoury edge and makes the blackberry feel more like fruit skin than jam. Drink 2025-2028.

Food Pairing
Serve this Alto Adige Lagrein with grilled ribeye, rosemary lamb chops or slow braised beef cheeks. The wine’s dry cocoa note picks up browned meat flavours, and the violet lift keeps the plate from feeling too dark. With pasta, choose pappardelle with beef ragù or short pasta with sausage and tomato. For a regional match, go for South Tyrolean canederli with speck and aged mountain cheese. The blackberry fruit and fine acidity also suit an aged Asiago or a hard alpine cheese with a nutty rind.

Producer
Muri-Gries is a producer with an address you can taste: the cellar sits inside a Benedictine abbey in the Gries quarter of Bolzano, right in Lagrein country, next to cloisters and courtyards with the bottle carrying that street-level origin into its dark profile. That physical closeness gives the wines a named neighborhood, and this matters for a grape whose strongest Bolzano identity is tied to Gries and its warm gravel and clay soils, shown here through compact fruit, dry texture and a violet note. The house treats Lagrein as a central thread across its range, with this accessible 2024 bottling sitting near the open-fruited end of a darker and more structured family where the fruit feels immediate and the tannins stay fine-grained. For this wine, the practical signature is short aging in oak barrels and stainless steel, a choice you can trace in the cocoa accent and clean blackberry line when comparing it with heavier oak-led versions of the grape. That detail connects the abbey story to what you smell in the glass: violet, blackberry and a dark chocolate hint carried in a direct dry shape, which is useful when the label looks monastic from the outside. Sustainable certification adds another concrete point, and it matches the quiet discipline of a producer that makes Lagrein from the same Bolzano quarter named on the label with 13.5% alcohol in a 750 ml bottle.

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