Description
Winery : Gimenez Mendez
Grape : Tannat
Region : Canelones, Uruguay
Wine Style:
Alcohol Content: 14%
Food Pairing: Roast meat, Cold cuts and salami, wild game, Tagliatelle with mushrooms, Sausage, Hard cheese, mushroom risotto, Pasta with meat sauce, Meat and game stew
Description: The grapes are hand harvested from our best plot 17 A from our main vineyard in Las Brujas region. In the winery hand selection, destemming and crushing. Pre fermentative maceration at low temperature during 6 days. Delicate fermentation with selected yeasts between 18 and 25 C during 12 days. Post maceration between 8 to 15 days. First use oak aging during 12 months. 70% American barrel and 30% French barrel.
Summers are dry with high temperaturas during the day and cool at night. The level surface of Las Brujas benefits from the cool coastal breezes from Rio de la Plata. During winter the rain average precipitation is aroun 860 mm.
Plum black color with great extraction, does not allow light to pass through, it offers a violet meniscus. When you turn the glass, you dye it in an attractive and vivacious color. On the nose, very expressive fruit with a background reminiscent of plum dried apricots, spices and jams. The palate is dry, broad, creamy and complex, delicious, stately and burly, with very polished fleshy tannins. Refreshing acidity with sustained persistence on the fruit. Ready to serve with red meats, wild boar, deer, pheasant and ñandú, intense and parked cheeses too.