Category: Dry
Characteristics: Moderate rubycolour, red fruity flavour and aroma, mildbarrique flavour, light, but characteristic and harmonic at the same time.
Age-grade: 2015
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, 70 % maturation in tanks, 30 % barrique maturation for 6 months. Bottling followed fining and clarification.
Alcohol content: 12% V/V
Sugar content: 1 g/l
Titratable acidity: 5,5 g/l
Colour: mirror clean, medium ruby. Essences: medium intensity, red fruits like cherries, sour cherries, plums, plus a bit of dark chocolate, vanilla from the maturation in the barrel. Aroma: moderately bodied, round tannins, moderate acidity. When tasting, red fruity aroma (cherry, sour cherry) can be recognised along with a bit of dark chocolate. Aftertaste: disappears moderately, fruity flavour and aroma is long-lasting. It is easy to drink, balanced.
It is recommended with sheep dishes, waterfowl dishes, fish soup, mushroom dishes, hard cheese.
