PRIVATE COLLECTION | MERLOT
Red Wine Isola dei Nuraghi IGT
Every family keeps something that isn’t for sale, but is passed down. For us, it’s a small Merlot vineyard, among the oldest on the estate, born from a gamble and, season after season, turned into a deep, authentically Mediterranean wine.
Only in the best vintages are the grapes hand-harvested and selected cluster by cluster. The wine rests for a long time in wood and in bottle, leaving time to complete its character.
This is how the wine of our Private Collection is born: the one we share on important occasions and around the family table. A piece of our history, to carry with you and share.
Variety Merlot 100%.
Area of origin: Sardinia Region (Italy).
Soil: Medium-textured, a mix of clay and sand, with a stony skeleton.
Altitude: 100/120 asl
Yield per hectare: 60 q.li/ha.
Training system: Spurred cordon
Plant density: 5600 plants/ha
Vinification: The grapes, hand-harvested in small baskets from the vineyard’s oldest plots, are selected cluster by cluster, destemmed and left to macerate for an extended period in troncoconical oak vats, with daily manual punch-downs, to gently extract the full phenolic profile. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barriques.
Fermentation temperature: 24-26 °C
Duration of fermentation: 25-30 days.
Aging: 18 months in French oak barriques, followed by at least 12 months of bottle aging.
Bottling season: Spring 2024
Evolutionary capacity: 15 years
ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS
Color: Deep, intense ruby red with garnet reflections.
Nose: Broad and complex: ripe plum and sour cherry, dried violet, then cocoa, sweet tobacco and a hint of Mediterranean scrub that reveals its terroir. Spicy and balsamic oak notes are well integrated.
Taste: Full and enveloping, with great structure. Dense, velvety tannins, freshness that carries the sip and an extremely long finish, with a harmonious close on ripe fruit and sweet spices.
Storage: Keep away from light, at a temperature of 15 ° C