Cantina La Salute Raboso Cerasaio - Italy - $21.99

cerasaioAn excellent wine for meat dishes, particularly red meat. It is perfect with roasts, game and cold cuts as well as with traditional boiled meat dishes.

Serving temperature 18 - 20 °C

SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS

The bouquet has typically fruity notes of cherries and ­ flowery hints of violets fused with a spicy sensation from its brief time in wooden barrels. Well-structured and balanced with evolved, rounded tannin.

TECHNICAL DATA

Area of origin: Monastier & San Polo di Piave

Variety: 90 - 95% Raboso Piave, with a small percentage of Raboso Veronese.

Training system: Sylvoz and the traditional Bellussi system

Harvest period: Fairly late

Yield Kg grapes per ha: 13,000 kg

Vini­cation: Traditional with the must kept in contact with the pomace for a long time and partial ripasso over the pomace of the Raboso passito following our own traditional method

Maturing: Part in oak barrels, the rest in stainless steel containers

Alcohol: 13% Vol.

Sugar residue: 6.00 - 7.00 g/l

Total acidity: 6.00 - 6.20 g/l