Category
Prestige
Type
shop.product_category.wine_type.red
Variety
shop.product_category.wine_variety.merlot
Brand
Capo d'Istria
Merlot is a variety of red wine, intense ruby color with gentle brick shades. The wine has a strong aromatic taste with fruit aromas and chocolate.
Wine description:
- Wine region: Slovenian Istria
- Vineyards: Debeli rtič
- Soil type: Eocene flysch with marl and sandstone
- Variety: Merlot
- 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 were phenolic nicely ripe.
- Processing: The grapes were spread and macerated for 16 days. After pressing, the wine in large oak barrels underwent biological deacidification. After flowing, the wine matured in selected 225 L oak barrique barrels for another two and a half years. After selecting the wine from the best barrels, it was just waiting to be bottled in larger oak barrels.
- Color: Intense ruby color with gentle brick shades.
- Aroma: This extremely complex aroma can be enjoyed with notes of black currant, cherry brandy, leather, prunes, white pepper, liquorice, dark chocolate, dried herbs and delicate smoky notes.
- Taste: The taste of this extremely rich and soft wine reminds us of ripe dark berries, dark chocolate, mint, tobacco, leather and forest undergrowth. The noble note of wood and nicely matured tannins complete the taste nicely and give the wine a nice potential for longer maturation.
- Wine analysis: Alcohol: 14.5 vol. %
- Sugar: 2.9 g / l
- Acid: 5.7 g / l
- pH: 3.43
- Maturation potential: 2025
- Last tasting: March 2021
