(SOMMO) SOMMOS Coleccion DO somontano merlot

PRODUCENT: Sommos
DRUIF: 🍇Merlot
WIJNTYPE: Rood Hout
HERKOMST: Somontano (Aragón): D.O. SOMONTANO
VITICULTUUR:
🌿 The estate is divided into individual vineyards. The grapes for this wine are grown in the Montesa vineyard. Vines are trained on wires using a trellised system at a height of 1.8m, and are pruned to leave a single spur, this form of pruning is known as ‘cordon unilateral royat’. There are 4115 vines per ha. producing 0,5kg of fruit per plant.
✋🚜VINTAGE: Grapes are harvested during the second week in September. Night harvest between midnight and 8am. Grapes are selected by hand at the winery.
VINIFICATIE:
🍷 Cold pre fermentation maceration for 48 hours. Traditional fermentation in temperature controlled ‘tinajas’ of 16,000L made of French oak at a temperature of less than 28ºC. This is followed by a second maceration on lees for a further fifteen days. The malolactic fermentation takes place in new French oak barrels. When this is complete the best barrels are selected to be blended together.
⌛AGEING: Aged on its lees in carefully selected, new, French oak barrels for twelve months.
DEGUSTATIE:
👁 COLOUR Intense cherry colour with ruby tones.
👃 Medium intense aromas of ripe red berry fruit, chocolate and minerals and spices.
👅 Medium intense aromas of ripe red berry fruit, chocolate and minerals and spices.
WIJN en GERECHT: Gebakken rood vlees, barbecue, lamsvlees, wild