Description
Grape: 100% Merlot
Wine Art Estate manages to masterfully vinify the famous Merlot, offering a cool-climate version. The most widely planted variety in France, the exceptional Merlot, rarely finds such ideal growing conditions as in Drama, that ensure its finesse.
Winemaking
Cold soak of the skins to the juice prior to fermentation for a few days to transfer noble phenols and structure from the grapes, before the “appearance” of alcohol. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks with regular pumping-over to extract color and tannins. After the malolactic conversion, the wine is transferred to French oak barrels, 1/3 new, for 12months maturation.