Muri-Gries Vernatsch 2024 - 0,75l

Muri-Gries Vernatsch 2024 is a dry Vernatsch from Alto Adige, with cherry and raspberry, violet and a cool almond edge from monastery vineyards in a ruby frame. This is Vernatsch in its bright South Tyrolean register, pale and juicy in feel. After short stainless steel ageing, the fruit feels crisp, and red beet gives this Muri-Gries bottling a savoury signature.

About the Wine
The 2024 Muri-Gries Vernatsch comes from the monastery's Alto Adige DOC vineyards in South Tyrol. The soils noted for this bottling are limestone and clay, a useful pairing for a red that lands light in colour and clear in scent. The sustainable certification attached to this wine puts the vineyard work on the label as part of the story. In these monastery parcels, Vernatsch gives a pale ruby wine with cherry skin, violet and a red beet undertone. The fruit has a sunlit feel in 2024, especially in the raspberry note that sits above the earthier beet tone. In the cellar, the estate gives this Vernatsch a short ageing in stainless steel tanks. After short stainless steel ageing, the 2024 release has a clean raspberry line from first pour. The wine is dry, with 12.5 percent alcohol and a slender body that suits the pale ruby colour. Its texture feels gently grained, with tannins that recall cherry skin. The finish reads as tank-aged Vernatsch, with almond skin, cherry and a faint mineral coolness.

Tasting Notes
Light ruby in the glass, the Muri-Gries Vernatsch 2024 opens with raspberry, sour cherry and a violet note that feels like pressed flowers in a cool cellar. A red beet earthiness sits under the fruit, giving the nose a savoury edge that points straight back to the flavour profile listed for this bottling. The palate is light and dry, with fine acidity and tannins that feel like cherry skin brushed across the tongue. Green almond appears on the finish, then a clean raspberry line returns and leaves a gentle bitter snap that belongs to this stainless steel aged Vernatsch. At 12.5 percent alcohol, it sits in a nimble frame and takes a light chill well, especially from a bottle opened young. Drink 2025-2027.

Food Pairing
For food, treat Muri-Gries Vernatsch 2024 like the red you open when the table has pale meats, vegetables and a little charcuterie at the same meal. Roast chicken with thyme, turkey cutlets or veal meatballs pick up the cherry and raspberry fruit, and the gentle tannin stays neat beside white meat especially if the skin is crisp. A regional plate of South Tyrolean speck, rye bread and soft cow's milk cheese brings out the wine's violet scent and almond finish and the match feels very Bolzano in spirit. For vegetables try grilled radicchio, beet salad with walnuts or mushrooms on polenta, where the red beet note in the wine feels especially clear. The short stainless steel aged style also suits a weeknight board of mortadella, young toma and pickled onions, with the dry finish clearing the salt from each bite.

Producer
Muri-Gries is an abbey winery in the Gries quarter of Bolzano, with a cellar door set inside a Benedictine monastery complex in the city and close to the old red wine heart of South Tyrol where traffic and vineyard history sit close together. That urban monastic setting gives the label a very concrete identity, and a bottle such as Muri-Gries Vernatsch 2024 feels tied to courtyards, cellars and a working address you can visit in Bolzano near the abbey walls and beside the old Gries streets. The estate's name is strongly linked with Lagrein from Gries, and that red wine focus shows up as a sure touch in this pale Vernatsch from Alto Adige DOC for the 2024 vintage with a gentle hand. For this bottling the useful producer detail is restraint in the cellar, with short stainless steel ageing that keeps the raspberry fruit and green almond finish close to the surface from first scent through the dry finish. Muri-Gries treats Vernatsch as a red for honest drinking, with pale colour and gentle tannin carried by the same disciplined house feel that appears across its local range in a quieter register. In this 2024 release, the monastery signature is the savoury detail after the fruit: cherry skin, red beet and almond skin linger in a calm line after the last sip.

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