Merlot DOC Lison Pramaggiore BIO

Italian Organic Red Wine

Grapes: Merlot
Area: Lison Pramaggiore

Fermentation

The grapes are cleaned and cooled
Dynamic skin maceration exploiting the fermentation gases and traditional punching down
Controlled fermentation temperature

Maturing

Malolactic fermentation
Few months' exposure to its fine activated lees
Controlled clarification temperature and conservation in steel vats

Sensorial Feature

Wine with excellent structure, full-bodied, robust, rich ruby red color tending to garnet with age.

Intense winy bouquet, slightly grassy, notes of raspberries when it is young.

Aged for 2-3 years it becomes dry.

Justly tannic, well-orchestrated and smooth.

Gastronomic Matches

It should be served with roast, fried and stewed dishes, white or red meats, or conserved meats.

It is excellent with fried fish if drunk very young.

Serving Temperature: Best uncorked 2-3 hours before serving and served at 18 °C.

Bottle: 750 ml

Analysis

Alcohol content: 12% vol.
Total acidity: 5,1 g/l
Volatile acidity: 0,2 g/l

Organic Agriculture

The methods of Organic Agriculture adopted by our company include the development of a sustainable model, based on the principles of preservation and enhancement of resources and respect for the environment and consumer health.

It indicates a method of cultivation that leads us to program the winemaking from the vineyard, believing in the potential of a vineyard without chemical and respectful of the area of the grape, avoiding to force the soil with chemical fertilizers that tend to stimulate the quantitative production of the plant, to the detriment of the qualitative one and to impoverish the precious relationship Land / Plant / Climate which is the necessary balance for the development of a strong vine that produces healthy grapes, balanced and rich and to make identifiable and unique wines.

Organic wine is a product that comes from a type of cultivation with very specific rules, established by Reg. 834/07 and EC Reg. 889/08.

BIO VEGAN certification

Lately, always more frequently, our customers ask us if our wines are vegan, and, as in our productions we do not use any animal adjuvant wine, nor GMO, we got the BIO VEGAN certification by ICEA.