The grapes were hand-picked in 15 kg crates, then carefully sorted. After cold maceration of the grapes for five to eight days at 8°-10°C, a controlled alcoholic fermentation at 26°-28°C followed which lasted eight to ten days.
After 12 months of maturation in Allier oak barrels, the wine was aged in bottle for a year and a half.
Tohani Principele Radu Merlot is a bright and extractive colour, intense ruby red with purple hues. The nose is characterised by sweet and spicy spices, cinnamon, black pepper, liquorice and vanilla, borrowed from the oak barrel. Quinine nuances and ripe red and black forest fruits, blackberries, blackcurrants, bitter cherries and sea buckthorn.
Warm and decisive taste where we find the promises of the smell: fruits, many and juicy, captured by a silky and even arrogantly soft tannin, almost chewy, for a young wine. Only the freshness reminds us of the recent year of production. Harmony, balance and elegance.
We recommend a decantation of at least two hours.
We suggest you associate it with raw dried sausages, game, mature cheeses, lamb chops with wine reduction.
