Marchese di Villamarina - Sella & Mosca - Sardinian wine

Alghero Doc, Sardinian red wine made by the best oenologist in Sardinia, the Sella & Mosca cellar

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The noble house of Villamarina Sella & Mosca has dedicated its most prestigious wines, repeatedly awarded in major international competitions, which are reserved for careful attention, both in growing old and selected Cabernet Sauvignon strains both in the long years of wooden rest prized and bottled. Its aroma is intense and persistent, with pleasant notes of red fruits and pleasant tones of vanilla and spicy notes early. mature flavor with a mellow, warm chorusing in harmony with oak presence, Recommended with red meats roasted or stewed and game.
VARIETY: Cabernet Sauvignon.
PRODUCTION AREA: Strong lands of conjugated ferrous clays from an ancient geological chaos of wind sands are home to nature, in the Sella & Mosca, the aristocratic grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon.
HARVEST TIME: Alghero in the late autumn, sunny and breezy, the grapes are harvested after the successful mitigation of their initial herbaceous character.
AGING: The harvested grapes are de-stemmed, crushed and for 24 h undergo pre-fermentation maceration at a temperature of 15 ° C. The fermentation begins at 20 ° C in order to follow in a thermal growing up to 28-30 ° C and lasts about three weeks in order to make a decisive polyphenolic extraction needed to address the long aging. It follows a spontaneous malolactic evolution that is accomplished by the autumn.

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COLOUR: ruby ​​red.
BOUQUET: intense and persistent with pleasant notes of red fruits well harmonized with pleasant tones of vanilla and spicy notes early.
TASTE: in mature wine the vine reappears with mellow, warm chorusing fienosi in harmony with Tronçais oak presence, reminiscent of the long aging in barrels of small capacity.
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 13.0% vol.
HERITAGE ACID: 5.5 g / l.
REFINEMENT: the end of autumn the wine accesses the first phase of maturation in "carat" of Tronçais oak Bordeaux, for a period of about 14 months, is subsequently placed in traditional barrels most ca-pacity for a further 12 months. After bottling there is a final period of aging in a dark cellar at 16 ° C for at least another 18 months.
HOW TO SERVE: at the temperature of 16-18 degrees.