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Galatrona 2019

DOC Valdarno di Sopra,Petrolo, 3000 ml

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Grape variety: Merlot
Producer: Diverse
Origin: Italy / Toscana
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Grape variety: Merlot
Producer: Diverse
Origin: Italy / Toscana

Description

Robert Parker / Monica Larner describe this wine as following: "Made with organic Merlot grapes, the Petrolo 2019 Galatrona is soft and luscious, spreading evenly over the palate with elegance and sweeping intensity. The bouquet shows dark fruit, black cherry and sweet prune. Those dark fruit tones are woven into pretty layers of spice, leather and perfumed tobacco. I like the tight, compact, yet fundamentally rich quality that is part of the mouthfeel in this important vintage. This wine could be considered a bit lighter and more ethereal compared to recent past releases, but I found that all the wines in this batch of new releases go in this same direction."


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Attributes

Origin: Italy / Toscana
Grape variety: Merlot
Label: Certified integrated production
Ripening potential: 1 to 20 years after harvest
Drinking temperature: 16 to 18 °C
Food Pairing: Cold fish dish, dried meat, Succulent chicken breast with cream sauc, Saltimbocca, Scaloppine di vitello al limone, Spaghetti con sugo al basilico, Risotto with ceps
Vinification: long must fermentation, fermentation in wooden barrel, Punching down, cooling period
Harvest: hand-picking, strict selection, in small boxes
Maturation: in large wooden barrel/foudre, in partly new and used barriques/ Pièces, long cultivation
Bottling: no filtration
Maturation duration: 10 months
Volume: 14.0 %
Note: Contains sulphites
Grape variety

Merlot

Everybody’s darling

Merlot is the most charming member of the Bordeaux family. It shines with rich colour, fragrant fullness, velvety tannins and sweet, plummy fruit. It even makes itself easy for the vintner, as it matures without issue in cool years as well. This is in contrast to the stricter Cabernet Sauvignon, which it complements as a blending partner. Its good qualities have made the Merlot famous worldwide. At over 100,000 hectares, it is the most-planted grape in France. It also covers large areas in California, Italy, Australia and recently in Eastern Europe. The only catch is that pure Merlot varieties rarely turn out well. Its charm is often associated with a lack of substance. Only the best specimens improve with maturity. They then develop complex notes of leather and truffles. This succeeds in the top wines from the Bordeaux appellation of Pomerol and those from Ticino, among others.

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Merlot
Country

Italy

Italy – Where wine is a way of life

The Italian wine regions are extremely diverse, and this is made clear in their wines. Established varieties such as Merlot, Syrah, and Sauvignon can be found on just 15 percent of the total vine growing area. The remaining 85 percent is reserved for autochthonous, indigenous varieties. More than 2,000 different grape varieties are grown under diverse conditions and pressed with various techniques into wines that reach the top tier of the international wine market.

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Rating
Parker 97 Points