La Roncaia Fusco 2017

La Roncaia Fusco 2017

Grape Varietals & Region:100% Merlot from Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.

Taste Profile: Ruby red with garnet tinges. This wine is a multi-layered aromatic set, merging typically herbaceous scents and intense perfumes of red berries, in a fine, clean and elegant complexity. On the palate it is structurally balanced, warm, smooth, appropriately tannic; La Roncaia Fusco is an engrossing and long-lasting wine.

Winemaking Process:Merlot grapes, picked at peak ripeness, arepartially raisined for about 8 weeks. This dryingmethod, characteristic of La Roncaia style, aimsat obtaining a more structured, well-rounded,and fruity wine. The grapes are destemmed butnot crushed and fermented in stainless steeltanks. After macerating for about 25 days thewine is racked and transferred to barriques.The wine rests in the barriques for 18 monthsduring which it slowly ages. The wine furtherages in the bottle to get more mature andbalanced.