94 pts Vinous (Galloni)
Drinking Window 2025 - 2037
The 2022 Carema Sumie is fabulous. This brisk, taut Carema is so classy. Dried herbs, mint, cedar and tobacco lend tons of nuance. This has real understated depth and structure, qualities that are such signatures of this tiny appellation. The long, mineral-drenched finish is sublime. There is no Riserva in 2022; all the fruit went into the straight Carema. - By Antonio Galloni on February 2026

GRAPES: 100% Nebbiolo

The grapes are 100% Nebbiolo (Picotendro biotype) from vines which are on average 50 years old and are trained using the ancient ‘pergola caremese’ (‘topie’ in local dialect) method. The grapes for Sumié wine always come from all the vineyards suitable for the production of Carema wine spread across the different areas of the municipality. The grapes were harvested and sorted manually in the middle of October in small boxes of 20 kg. The grapes were de-stemmed and pressed as soon as they arrived in cellar, and the must went into 15 hl concrete tank for spontaneous alcoholic fermentation. The must was pushed down manual once or twice daily until the end of fermentation. The maceration on the skins lasted till the end of December 2020, when after the racking and the pouring off, the wine was put in exhausted tonneau and barrique. The wine underwent spontaneous malolactic fermentation in the spring and immediately after was racked in early summer 2021 with slight sulphiting. The wine, after the first 12 months of aging in tonneau, has continued to age in concrete tank for the last 8 months until bottling in September 2022, without filtration. No added oenological additive with the exception of sulphur dioxide in minimum quantities.

A very elegant and refined vintage, which gave rise to a wine in perfect "Carema style": a crystalline wine with notable gustatory tension due to a marked acidity and excellent savory, the fruit is very intact and crunchy, the measured and airy body leads to compulsive drinking and fulfilling. His expressive parable is just beginning.- winery