Category: Dry
Characteristics: Moderate ruby colour, fresh, red fruity, mild barrique flavour and aroma, harmonic, but exciting at the same time
Age-grade: 2016
Production procedure: Manual harvest, 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 6 months in small-sized (225L) BQ barrels used several times before. Bottling followed fining and clarification.
Alcohol content: 12% V/V
Sugar content: 1,1 g/l
Titratable acidity: 5,0 g/l
Colour: mirror clean, moderate ruby with carmine red reflex. Essences: moderate intensity, red fruits like rasberry, cherry, plus, floral essences like violet, which is completed with tobacco, dark chocolate and vanilla coming from the maturation in small-sized barrels. Aroma: moderately bodied, moderate tannins, fresh acids and red fruits (rasberry, cherry) and menthol can be recognised along with dark chocolate and vanilla from the maturation in barrels. It is balanced, pleasant and has a long-lasting aroma.
It is recommended with steaks, game stew, grilled meats, marinated duck and roasted goose.
