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View: Deep ruby red.
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Nose: Velvety nose with crisp red fruit, sweet oriental spices, tobacco, chocolate, balsamic herbal notes.
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Taste: Warm and balanced, with a velvety tannic texture of a savory nature, elegantly long finish.
Grape variety: Merlot 100%.
Production area: Certaldo hills (Florence).
Average age of planting: 40 years.
Yield for hectare: about 4.000 kg.
Training system: Spurred cordon.
Soil type: Pliocene clay, silt and sand.
Harvest time: First decade of October manual harvest, in boxes.
Vinification: Destemming and soft crushing. Temperature-controlled fermentation (24-26° C) and maceration (about 20 days) on the grapes skins in small open containers in which repeated hand- pressing is done. Malolactic fermentation carried out in barriques.
Evolution: 24 months in barriques. Followed by one year in bottle before release.
