Merlot 'Grammonte' Cottanera 2012

The Merlot "Grammonte" by Cottanera is a Sicilian Merlot born from Etna and that regal power, a body and a persistence really important. Merlot and Etna may seem a very special combination, almost unusual, but it is not and the Cottanera demonstrated; a basement that has never followed the fashions, a winery that has never bent and standardized. Here, where Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio found the ideal terroir to express themselves, Cottanera decided to give luster to the Merlot that is born from the vineyard Above Cantina, a vineyard located 700 meters above sea level in Castiglione di Sicilia, on soils rich material lava-flood; harvest in the first half of September and vinification in steel at a controlled temperature, followed by maceration on the skins for 16-18 days and aged for 12 months in French oak barrels for 40% first-pass and 12 months in bottle. Thus a Merlot of intense ruby red color, dense, impenetrable, which offers harmony notes and wrapping of ripe fruit, cherry, black cherry, plum. It has a soft and sinuous profile, elegant and intense, with a structure able to withstand even the most important matches...