Merlot Riserva Siebeneich 2022 - 14% vol. Colterenzio Winery

Description: 
A charming nose with hints of vanilla and coffee intert wined with floral aromas and lush plummy fruit. The palate is rich and deep with silky tannins and spicy oak tints and leading a long, smooth aftertaste. Ready to be drunk, this Merlot will continue to improve for several years. 

Grape variety: 
Merlot - South Tyrol DOC 

Production area: 
A sunny hillside location ideal for producing muscular Merlot. Soils consist of eroded quartziferous porphyry which are extremely dry, retain heat but only permit allow low yieldings. 

Vinification: 
Fermentation whit the skins in stainles-steel tanks with the temperature controlled at 28 - 30°C. The skins are constantly pushed down gently into the embryonic wine to extract the maximum color, flavour and ripe tannins. The wine refines in oak for 18 months, 1/3 in barriques, 2/3 of the totalin 35 hl casks. After bottling the wine goes through a bottle aging 12 months before releasing. 

Food pairing: 
Roast lamb with rosemary, garlic and peppers; beef stroganoff with a puff pastry topping; venison casserole and mature cheeses. 

Serving temperature: 
16°C. 

Ageing potential: 
more than 8 years. 

Bottle to: 
750 ml - 75 cl - 0,75 lt. 

Allergens: 
wine can contain sulphites. 

Producer: 
Colterenzio Winery 
Founded in 1960, the Colterenzio winery is one of the youngest winegrowers’ cooperative in Alto Adige. In 1960, 28 winegrowers left the historical Cornaiano winery based in the same little village to found their own winery – and named it after the hamlet they came from: Schreckbichl in German, Colterenzio in Italian. These winegrowers can be considered rebels but at the same time pioneers for right after the foundation of their own winery they were setting the course towards quality. 
Today, 300 winegrowers together with the people working at Colterenzio continued this path. 
The winegrowers grow their grapes on a total of 300 hectares; the vineyards are located in one of the best wine growing areas of Alto Adige, on altitudes from 230 to 650 meters. 12 different varieties are cultivated. 35% of the wines at Colterenzio are red, 65% are white. The Colterenzio winery cares about the environment, not only in the vineyards, but also in the cellar. In the vineyard this means sustainable viticulture and handpicked grapes. In the winery itself most of the electric energy used in the winery is supplied by a photovoltaic installation, 100% of the electric power is certified green and 70% of hot water requirements is provided by solar panels and a heat recovery system. 

Cantina Colterenzio Soc. Agr. Coop. 
Strada del Vino 8 
39057 - Cornaiano / Appiano (BZ) 
info@colterenzio.it 
www.colterenzio.it