Il Palagione
Il Palagione San Gimignano Merlot Ares 2017
| Denomination | San Gimignano DOC |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Area | Tuscany (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Merlot |
| Aging | After malolactic fermentation, the wine rests for at least 24 months in wooden containers and then without any stabilisation or filtration process it is bottled where it rests for a further 12 months in the bottle before it is marketed. |
Description
It represents the other excellence of the company's production. The analysis of this pure wine began in 2004 and only after reassuring examples of its longevity and freshness was it decided to start marketing it from the 2013 vintage. It is certainly a modern wine, in line with today's cosmopolitan gastronomic requirements, that knows how to unite undoubted qualities of finesse, elegance and softness with sensations of infinite freshness and drinking pleasure, so much so that it revisits the historical white wine tradition of this area, skilfully redesigning a modern wine geography.
Perfume
Color
Taste
Serve at:
18 - 20 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour
- Oenologist: Valentino Ciarla
- Bottles produced: 60.000
- Hectares: 16
In short time, the ancient farmhouse is restructured and vineyards are replanted on terrains that once were vines. (1997/2001) Afterwards a cellar is built (2001) provided with the most modern equipment to grapes delicate and respectful processing, building underground a barrique (oak barrel) to obtain the best and natural wine preservation in oak wood and a balanced bottled maturing. With the later acquisition (2014) of vineyard at Montagnana, the business reaches an approx. 50-hectare land surface of which 17 destined to specialized vineyard, 3 olive trees, 7 walnut and cherry trees and the remaining part arable and wood land.
We wanted to replicate archaic gestures for pleasure to feel moving, to be, to think, like pruning: you clip while looking for the coming production, you collect wood and leave it to dry for few seasons and then burn it, cooking on it and heating the old farmhouse. We yearned to be uncomfortable, physically tired but intellectually happy, focused on a project not aimed to reach one’s choice result in the immediate future but shifted forward according to rhythms of nature.
We wanted to give our children the chance of an unconditional, undemanding choice, a conscious choice; the industrial and service world was already familiar, now it was time to show another face.
And loving since forever wine, medieval history and Romanic art, we could not have chosen a better place than Tuscany. Read more
| Name | Il Palagione San Gimignano Merlot Ares 2017 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red organic still |
| Denomination | San Gimignano DOC |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Merlot |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Vendor | Il Palagione |
| Origin | Montagnana, Palagione (Siena). |
| Cultivation system | Spurred cordon and Guyot with 8 0 buds. |
| Plants per hectare | About 5,000. |
| Yield per hectare | About 3,500 litres per hectare. |
| Wine making | After careful sorting and a gentle de-stemming-crushing of the bunches, alcoholic fermentation follows at a temperature of around 28/30°C with frequent but gentle pumping-over and delestage, with maceration on the skins for about 20/30 days in small, wide and low stainless steel tanks to favour more important liquid/skin contact and the consequent better extraction of both tannins and colouring substances. After racking, the wine is placed in French oak barriques to complete alcoholic fermentation, which is immediately followed by malolactic fermentation. The wine rests for at least 24 months in the wooden containers and is then bottled without any stabilisation or filtration process, where it rests for a further 12 months in the bottle before being marketed. |
| Aging | After malolactic fermentation, the wine rests for at least 24 months in wooden containers and then without any stabilisation or filtration process it is bottled where it rests for a further 12 months in the bottle before it is marketed. |
| Year production | 2000 bottles |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |
