Category
Prestige
Type
shop.product_category.wine_type.red
Variety
shop.product_category.wine_variety.refosk
Brand
Capo d'Istria
Refošk is a variety of red wine, intense ruby in color with purple hues. The wine has a rich and very wide taste, the aroma surprises us with an abundance of ripe fruit.
Wine description:
- Wine region: Slovenian Istria
- Vineyards: Shantoma and Purissima
- Soil type: Eocene flysch with marl and sandstone
- Variety: Refošk
- Harvest: Exclusively manual harvest in early October.
- Situation at harvest time: The 2013 harvest was marked by dry weather and beautiful autumn. The harvest was done in sunny weather. The grapes have already been partially dried.
- Processing: Excellent ripe grapes were macerated for 12 days. After the end of the maceration, the wine was poured into large oak barrels, where biological deacidification also took place. It then matured in oak 225L barrique barrels for another two and a half years.
- Color: Intense ruby color with purple hues.
- Aroma: The aroma surprises us with an abundance of ripe fruit, reminiscent of ripe blackberries, cherries, mulberries and blueberries. This blends beautifully with notes of wood, undergrowth, graphite, dark chocolate and spices.
- Taste: The taste is rich and very wide. Pleasant soft and ripe acids keep this rich wine vibrant and ripe fruity. The beautiful structure of the tannins and the extract give the wine a long and beautiful aftertaste.
- Wine analysis: Alcohol: 14.0 vol. %
- Sugar: 3.7 g / l
- Acid: 7.4 g / l
- pH: 3.40
- Maturation potential: 2025
- Last tasting: March 2021
