A unique red wine, ruby red, with balanced taste carrying multiple shades: from cherry jam, to coffe and chocolate after-taste.
NAME AND DENOMATION: IGT Veneto
GRAPE VARIETY: 60% Cabernet, 40% Merlot
ORIGIN: Provinces of Treviso and Venice
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14% vol
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 18°C
DIMENSION: 750ml
A unique red wine, ruby red, with balanced taste carrying multiple shades: from cherry jam, to coffe and chocolate after-taste.
NAME AND DENOMATION: IGT Veneto
GRAPE VARIETY: 60% Cabernet, 40% Merlot
ORIGIN: Provinces of Treviso and Venice
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14% vol
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 18°C
DIMENSION: 750ml
PRIZES
Hand-picked grapes; 20-day maceration in steel vats. After the alcoholic fermentation, the wine is decanted into 220-litre oak barrels where it completes the malolactic fermentation (after an initial decanting stage). The wine is decanted into medium toasted barriques (Allier French oak). The fi nal stage of ageing lasts for 2 months. The Cabernet Merlot Batista is bottled when it’s 2 months old and is aged for another 8 months.
Colour: intense ruby red with purplish highlights.
Bouquet: intense ruby red with purplish highlights.
Flavour: balanced, reminiscent of cherry jam, with an aftertaste of coffee and chocolate, it has a high content of tannins, acidity and alcohol, fullbodied and a long-lasting aftertaste. When it is still young, it has weighty tannins and is fairly smooth, which will improve with age.
Red meats, game, pasta dishes with rich, game sauces, mature cheeses.
