APPELLATION
Merlot DOC Friuli
VIGNIFICATION
After destemming the must with the skins is transferred into a stainless steel tank for starting the fermentation at a controlled temperature. After approximately 12-15 days skin contact, at the end of the alcoholic fermentation, the wine is ready to be aged for a long term (12-14 months) in stainless steel before the bottling.
Harvest: hand picking in small boxes.
Grapes conditions: perfectly mature at the picking time.
Picking Time: third week of September.
Grapes: this 100% Merlot is a blend of different clones: 348, F4, F6, 181, 184, R3, FV4. The blend of different clones allows to get a more complex wine.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Color: Intense ruby red.
Nose: complex, intense, berries, spicy.
Taste: velvety, hints of tobacco and liquorice, berries and chocolate
PAIRING
Very nice as an aperitivo, perfect weeding with fish pastas. Light cheese and simple salumi are a great option.
TECHNICAL DATA
| Vineyard surface: | Ha 3,4 |
| Pruning: | Double guyot |
| Yield per hectare: | 20000 pounds |
| Row sizes: | 2,70 mt. per 0,9 mt. |
| Year of planting: | 1993 |
| Acidity: | 4,45 gr./Lt. |
| Sugar residual: | 0,90 gr./Lt. |
| Dry extract: | 24,40 gr./Lt. |
| Total sulfites: | 147 mg/Lt. |
| Free sulfites: | 16 mg/Lt. |
| Vol.: | 12,34 % |
SOIL
Clay. Vineyard planted in a flat land, orientation north – south and sun exposure east-west.
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