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Palesa Merlot

Palesa Merlot

Style

Ripe red and dark fruits with dominant rasberry flavours. Flavours reflect the nose with plum and cherry with slight earthy notes.

Serving

  • Veal Cannelloni

Tasting Notes

  • Raspberry
  • Plum & cherry
  • Earthy notes

Vinification

Grapes are harvested at peak ripeness, destemmed, and gently crushed. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks with regular pump-overs for 8 days. After draining from the skins, the wine is matured in the cellar for 10 months before bottling.

Chemical Analysis

  • Alcohol: 13.92 %
  • Residual Sugar: 3.2 g/l
  • Total Acid: 5.5 g/l
  • pH: 3.52