Vintage:
2009
Variety:
Merlot 100%
Alcohol:
12,50 %
Vine training:
Guyot single
Average vine age:
63 years
Cultivation:
organic
Vinification:
Late grape harvesting, hand-picked with a short period between the picking and fermentation – 2 hours maximum. Beginning of fermentation in large fermentation tanks with natural yeast picked out from the same grapes harvested during pre-harvesting (5 %). Maceration takes place from 3 to 4 weeks till the completion of fermentation until the cap of grape skins sinks to the bottom of the tank and clears the wine naturally. The wine is thus ready for a long and fully active life in barriques, without decanting. Quiet fermentation is completed in wooden barriques where wine matures on its own lees without decanting.
Until it is bottled no sulphur or any other conservation additive is used. Thus the wine has gone through all natural processes and becomes sound and stable naturally, ready to last one lifetime of ours.
Preparation:
Maturing in barriques up to or 5 years: volume 220 l – Slovenian oak
Bottle age:
Bottles (vol. 0.75 l) are placed on their side for 6 months.
(SO2) total:
Under 23 mg/l
