Montes Alpha Merlot - Montes

The Montes Alpha Merlot from Montes in the Valle Central offers a dense purple color in the wine glass. Poured into a Bordeaux glass, this red wine from Chile presents delightfully fragrant aromas of violet, plum, morello cherry and mulberry, rounded out by cocoa bean, gingerbread spice and toasted barrique contributed by barrel aging.

This Chilean wine delights with its elegantly dry flavor. It was bottled with exceptionally little residual sugar. As you would expect from a wine in the high quality wine range, this Chilean naturally enraptures with the finest balance despite all its dryness. Aroma does not necessarily need sugar. On the tongue, this punchy red wine is characterized by an incredibly dense and velvety texture. In the finish, this youthful from the wine-growing region Valle Central finally inspires with considerable length. Again, hints of morello cherry and plum appear. In the aftertaste, mineral notes of the sand-dominated soils join in.

Vinification of the Montes Alpha Merlot from Montes

The powerful Montes Alpha Merlot from Chile is a cuvée, pressed from the grape varieties Carmenère and Merlot. In the Valle Central, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of sand. The grapes for this red wine from Chile, when perfectly ripe, are harvested exclusively by hand . After the harvest, the grapes arrive at the winery by the fastest route. Here they are sorted and carefully ground. This is followed by fermentation in small wood at controlled temperatures. The vinification is followed by aging for several months on the fine lees before the wine is finally bottled.

Food recommendation for the Montes Montes Alpha Merlot

Experience this red wine from Chile ideally tempered at 15 - 18 ° C as an accompanying wine to goose breast with ginger-red cabbage and marjoram, spinach gratin with almonds or cod with cucumber-mustard vegetables.

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