Oslavje Riserva 1999 English

Wine composition: 20% Tocai, 40% Chardonnay and 40% Sauvignon.

Vintage: only hand-made vintage in baskets, from the 20^th of September to the 15^th of October. This wine is made from the best wine grapes of Tocai, Chardonnay and Sauvignon grape.

Wine-making: After taking off the grape stalks, the grape is put in rover vats, where maceration is held without any temperature control and with the natural yeasts which were already on the skin of the berries. Maceration goes on until the sugars are exhausted (about 20 days).

Cask aging: After racking, the wine lies in casks, which where used before, for about 24 months: in the meantime more than one racking could be necessary.

During this process no type of chemical preservative is added to the wine.

Racking in bottles: Racking was held without any filtration or clarification, in September 2001, in bottles of 0,75 l and 0,50 l, with no preservatives added. Sulphur dioxide traces in our wines are produced during fermentation by an all-natural process.

ORGANOLEPTIC DESCRIPTION:

Colour: dark golden yellow with amber nuances, a bit veiled.

Fragrance: full, with undernotes of ripe fruits, dried fruits (hazelnut, nut, dried figs) and honey.

Taste: ample, smooth, persistent, in the same time a bit tannic but elegant. In the aftertaste, undernotes of ripe fruits, in particular cherry, tropical fruits and final spicy undernotes.

We remind you that these wines must be served at the same temperature as red wines, and not kept in the refrigerator.