| Soil Type: |
Rich loamy river sediment
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| Viticulture practice: |
Trellised. Controlled irrigation.
Green dropping to ensure
even ripeness at harvest time. Summer pruning.
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| Vinification Details:
|
Only selected optimum ripened grapes,
hand harvested,
de-stemmed right into tanks by gravity, are used. The
whole berries then gets fermented with specially selected
yeast with the juice being pumped over every 4 hours.
The wine is then kept on the skins for three weeks and
then the free juice is separated from the skins which
then gets pressed. After malolactic fermentation
the wine gets blended.
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| Wood ageing:
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12 Months in 70% French oak barrels
and 30%
American oak barrels.
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| Winemakers Comments:
|
A refined and elegantly structured
Merlot with black
berry and ripe plum with hints of smokiness completed
by soft tannins. This wine is an ideal accompaniment
to fine red meat dishes.
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| Analysis:
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| Alc: |
TA: |
pH |
R.S: |
| 15 |
6.2 |
3.4 |
2.4 |
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