Zeni (Roberto). Teroldego di Rotaliano 'Pini'

Teroldego di Rotaliano DOC
Grape: Teroldego

Remarkably floral aromas lead to rich blueberry and damson fruit, fresh dried fig and a touch of pepper.  A full and soft red with mountain freshness.  12.5%

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Between thirty and fifty percent of the grapes are dried prior to fermentation, the warmer the vintage the fewer the grapes that are dried (as a rule). The grapes are trodden under foot in open, upended barrels where the must ferments using indigenous yeasts, with no temperature control. The fermentation takes a relatively short ten days after which the wine is transferred into a steel tank until it has gone through malolactic fermentation. The wine is then clarified using only gravity and patience. Ageing is in old barriques for two years before bottling.
The style has been honed over many years into one of the great wines of the Trento, it combines power and complexity with sapidity and the absence of new barrique allows for a very pure interpretation of Teroldego.