Category: Dry
Characteristics: Dark colour with carmine tinges, its essences are ripe fruits like cranberry and dried plum. Its aroma discreetly contains a bit of wood and coffee as well. It is a wine with great complexity and a long-lasting aroma.
Age-grade: 2008
Production procedure: Manual harvest on selected vineyards with crop restriction, fast procession: destemming and crushing, fermentation in tanks by grape-marc soaking, controlled fermentation with the inoculation of yeast species (25-28 C.).
Skin contact period was 3 weeks, then natural malic acid splitting also in tanks, maturation in barrels for 18 months partly in new small-sized (225L) BQ barrels, partly in those used several times before. After maturation came the selection of the best quality barrels (tasting, analysis). Bottling followed fining and clarification.
Alcohol content: 13,50% V/V
Sugar content: 0,4 g/l
Titratable acidity: 5,1 g/l
Colour: dark colour with intensive carmine tinges. Essences: ripe fruits: cranberry, sour-cherry, dried plum. Aroma: Its aroma discreetly contains a bit of wood and coffee as well. A wine with great complexity and a long-lasting aroma.
