Sito dell' Ulmo, Merlot di Sicilia IGT

TYPE OF SOIL: Average texture, moderately deep to deep with abundant pebbles, slightly limey and with some areas of dark organic material.

ALTITUDE: 195 m a.s.l.

YIELD PER HECTARE: 85 quintals.

TRAINING SYSTEM: Guyot.

PLANTING DENSITY: 3,800 vines per hectare.

HARVESTING PERIOD: 10 September.

VINIFICATION: Destalking followed by 14 days on the skins; fermentation at 28⁰C; after racking malolactic fermentation in stainless steel and maturing for 14 months in barriques.

MATURATION: Allier oak barriques, 50% new.

BOTTLING PERIOD: second half of February.

ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14% vol.

TOTAL ACIDITY: 6 gr/l PH: 3,41

AGING CAPACITY: to drink at once or to age for 8-10 years.

TASTING NOTES: A bewitching wine which gently overcomes you. Its uniqueness emerges in a particular way with a diverse but lively structure of tannins and with its strong and intensely savoury taste. This version of a densely ruby coloured Merlot, so rich with the sweet juice of black currant and candied violet which alternates with thyme and lavender, cannot pass unnoticed either by the palate of a refined taste or by that of an enthusiastic novice. It is a multi-faceted and intriguing red wine which combines the pleasure of tannin with an extraordinary persistence of taste.

MATCHING: Although it can so easily be drunk on its own, its elegance renders it appropriate with white meat even when cooked with a sauce of considerable flavour, or else with some delicate fish cooked without lemon or even with baked vegetables.

	Organoleptic properties COLOUR: It is a multi-faceted and intriguing red wine which combines the pleasure of tannin with an extraordinary persistence of taste. AROMA:   This version of a densely ruby coloured Merlot, so rich with the sweet juice of black currant and candied violet which alternates with thyme and lavender, cannot pass unnoticed either by the palate of a refined taste or by that of an enthusiastic novice. FLAVOUR: A bewitching wine which gently overcomes you. Its uniqueness emerges in a particular way with a diverse but lively structure of tannins and with its strong and intensely savoury taste.
	Best enjoyed at a temperature of 17-19°C.
	Although it can so easily be drunk on its own, its elegance renders it appropriate with white meat even when cooked with a sauce of considerable flavour, or else with some delicate fish cooked without lemon or even with baked vegetables.
	To drink at once or keep for 8-10 years.