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Merlot Due Amici 2020

DOC Ticino, Brivio, 750 ml

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Grape variety: Merlot
Producer: Brivio / Gialdi
Origin: Switzerland / Tessin / Sottoceneri
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Grape variety: Merlot
Producer: Brivio / Gialdi
Origin: Switzerland / Tessin / Sottoceneri
Other bottle sizes:

Description

The floweriness and spiciness in the bouquet are reminiscent of English spice and flower potpourris, whereby the intensity of the fruitiness is just as pronounced. On the palate, it reveals its accessible character with a pleasant juiciness, ripe tannins and flavours of amarena cherries, elder, dried pears and oranges that remain pleasantly long in the finish. This wine is dedicated to over 20 years of successful collaboration between two friends: Baur au Lac Vins and Guido Brivio.


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Attributes

Origin: Switzerland / Tessin / Sottoceneri
Grape variety: Merlot
Label: Vegan
Ripening potential: 2 to 8 years after harvest
Drinking temperature: 16 to 18 °C
Food Pairing: Fegato alla veneziana, Calf's kidneys with mustard sauce, Roasted lamb gigot, Saltimbocca, Scaloppine di vitello al limone, Vegetable pie
Vinification: short must fermentation, fermentation in steel tank
Harvest: hand-picking
Maturation: in used barriques, short cultivation
Maturation duration: 12 months
Volume: 13.0 %
Note: Contains sulphites
Producer

Brivio / Gialdi

For most of wine lovers in Switzerland, the name Guido Brivio is no unknown. However, abroad, it is a different story. Only after many years in the trade has he become among the wine experts and professionals of New York or London an insider tip, so to say, from an infinitesimally tiny unknown corner in the great international wine world.

Although Guido’s grandfather was a wine merchant, he didn’t grow up in this industry, or even on a wine estate. At home, life didn’t revolve around grapes, but artichokes! His mother and uncle jointly possessed the Swiss production rights for Cynar. Only after studying business in London did the young Guido decide to study oenology in Bordeaux. His mother was delighted, as she saw that a certain family tradition could now continue. There then followed a stay in Sonoma Valley, California, where he became acquainted with American wine producers’ carefree, adventurous way of working.

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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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Tessin

Ticino: the Merlot Mecca of Switzerland

Ticino winegrowing is thought to date from Roman times, as early as 2000 years ago. But the foundation for today’s viticulture was laid just over 100 years ago, in 1907. It was then that the first Merlot vines were planted at Castelrotto in Malcantone. Since then, the variety has emerged triumphant here. Top selections matured in barriques more than measure up to those from Bordeaux’s Saint-Émilion or Pomerol regions.

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Switzerland

Switzerland – A small country with enormous diversity

Switzerland is famous for its banks, watches, and cheese, but not necessarily for its wine. The Swiss didn't invent wine, but they have been extremely open and curious to it. Wine culture arrived in what is now modern Switzerland via several routes: from Marseilles to Lake Geneva and the Lower Valais region; from the Aosta Valley through the Great St. Bernard Pass to the rest of Valais; from the Rhone through Burgundy, across the Jura Mountains to Lake Constance; and from Lombardy to Ticino, and then on to Grisons.

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