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With our DONATUS, we strive to create a premium red blend showing
both a distinctive local character and our individual style. We achieve
this with a careful selection of fruit from our healthy vineyards. All wines
are fermented and aged in separate batches and skilfully blended after
a long ageing process. There are no standard blending components;
consistency is only to be achieved in quality and style. DONATUS offers
the best of old world classic concentration and new world boldness.
Tasting Notes
With its deep red colour this wine possesses
multi-layered aspects. At first one is encountered by the luscious
fruit of cherry and blackberry, sidelined by ever-present hints of cedar
and cassis and perhaps even slight nuances of tobacco on the nose.
Moving on to the palate one unearths elegance, finesse and poise
common to this combination of Bordeaux varieties with soft tannins
and a fresh acidity providing for a lengthy aftertaste of crisp fruit and
liquorice. A truly well balanced wine.
Vintage Conditions
Due to the climatic condition during the harvest period, the grapes
ripened slow and evenly providing for perfect flavour and quality.
Smaller than usual berry sizes also resulted in great concentration
and structure among the red wines.
Fermentation and Ageing
Our red wines for the DONATUS blend were fermented in vineyard
specific batches for between 14 and 21 days being punched down
or pumped over twice a day, the wines then spent a further 20 months
in first fill, French oak barrels.
Analysis
Alcohol : 14.00 %, Residual Sugar : 1.80 g/L, Total Acid : 6.40 g/L,
Final pH : 3.42, VA : 0.5 g/L
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