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50% Sauvignon Blanc 50% Gewürztraminer
Tasting Note:
Two highly aromatic grape varieties, and a masterfully controlled oxidative wine style. A nose of ripe fruits, yellow fruits, with notes of minerals, dried fruits, and honey. Palate: a rich, complex and intense juice, with a long finish. A wine crafted for the dinner table. A cuvée of 50% Sauvignon and 50% Gewurztraminer, from vines cultivated biodynamically and planted on clay-limestone soils facing south. Vinification: slow pressing (24 hours), followed by two years of maturation in demi-muid barrels then two years in bottles at the estate, with zero sulphites added at bottling, for a total of 35 mg/l of free sulphur. As Stefano once put it: "La Merla is opulence, lust and generosity".