France, IGP Pays d'Oc
Merlot
Description
Deep garnet-red with purple tints. An Intense and spicy nose of blackcurrant, fresh blackberries, and liquorice. Full, juicy and rounded body with a lingering and fruity end. Fruity, full, as well as naturally light in alcohol 11 % vol and 87 calories per glass (12 cL)* *20 % less than average. Jancis Robinson, Financial Times 29 octobre 2009, Drinkable and below 12 % vol : ‘The most successful wines with deliberately reduced alcohol that I have come across.’
Awards
15 pts Bettane and Desseauve
Certificates
Alcohol
11.0%
Analytical data
dry
{0} g/l residual sugar
{0} g/l acidity
Vinification
Pre hot skin maceration for a night, then pressing and thermo controlled fermentation.
Vineyard
Irrigated vines with high foliar surface on chalk and clay soils.
Maturation
Ageing in tanks with micro oxygenation.
