Grande Cuvée Certeze 2004
VINTAGE: 2004
SORT: 100% REFOSCO
VINEYARD: ČERTEŽE (100m above sea level)
WINE DISTRICT: SLOVENIAN ISTRIA
SOIL: bright, flysch – sandy on rich marl-slate base
AVG. VINE AGE: 10 years
PLANTATION DENSITY: 4000 vines/Ha
LOAD: 1 kg/vine
VINE YIELD: cca 30 HL/Ha
HARVESTING: manual
VINTAGE TIME: October 2004
HARVESTING TECHNOLOGY: The grapes from our most perspective vineyard fermented together with the juice at the temperatures of 25 to 28°C. After the fermentation, prolonged maceration followed (about 30 days) and the wine was poured into new French barrique oak barrels to mature for the next 24 months. Malolactic fermentation followed. Due to its great structure sulphur additives are minimal. In the final process only the superior barrels were carefully chosen to produce Grande Couvée 2004 – Certeze in so called "barell selection".
*100 % new barriques; the combination of Seguin Moreau, Muid'Oc (320L) & Seguin Moreau (225L); the combination of medium toasted and untoasted (burgundy barrel)
FILTRATION: Unfiltered.
BOTTLING: March 07
NO. OF BOTTLES: 5000 of 0,75 bottles, 144 of 4,5 L (rehoboam) bottles
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14% vol
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 2,7 g/L
ACID: 6 g/L (wine acid)
PH: 3,5
RECOMMENDED SERVING TEMPERATURE: Room temperature (18 - 20°C). Requires decanting.
AGING POTENTIAL: 20 years (enologist Claude Gros, Narbonne)
COLOUR: deep ruby red of the "dark king" – refosco (re di fosco) (enologist Claude Gros, Narbonne).
NOSE: a whole basket of fruits (blackcurrant, plum, blackberry, slight breath of peach), chocolate and real espresso coffee (enologist Claude Gros, Narbonne)
PALATE: the taste is nothing but moving: extreme fullness and perfect harmony of mature tannines and fruitness. Still fresh, truly silky and velvet at the same time. Mocha and cocoa mix beautifully with blackcurrant, plum and roast meat. It is not even wine anymore, it is the food for the spirit. (enolog Claude Gros, Narbonne)
Grande Cuvée Certeze 2004 & FOOD: Dishes with strong flavour, based on red meat, combined with Mediterranean spices. Venison (deer, bear, roe deer, boar), lamb, smoked meat,truffles, cheese and mouldy cheese. Chocolate with high cocoa content (more than 70%).
NOTE: Vintage 2004 was quite unusal for Slovenian Istria with the summer drought failing and raining heavier than usual. The weather was far from ideal for the maturing of the red wines and the 2004 is widely considered as a poor vintage year. But Grande Cuvée Certeze 2004 proves, that even in poor vintage years, with effort and sacrifice, as well as drastic reduction of quanity, a great wine can be produced.
VINTAGE: 2004
SORT: 100% REFOSCO
VINEYARD: ČERTEŽE (100m above sea level)
WINE DISTRICT: SLOVENIAN ISTRIA
SOIL: bright, flysch – sandy on rich marl-slate base
AVG. VINE AGE: 10 years
PLANTATION DENSITY: 4000 vines/Ha
LOAD: 1 kg/vine
VINE YIELD: cca 30 HL/Ha
HARVESTING: manual
VINTAGE TIME: October 2004
HARVESTING TECHNOLOGY: The grapes from our most perspective vineyard fermented together with the juice at the temperatures of 25 to 28°C. After the fermentation, prolonged maceration followed (about 30 days) and the wine was poured into new French barrique oak barrels to mature for the next 24 months. Malolactic fermentation followed. Due to its great structure sulphur additives are minimal. In the final process only the superior barrels were carefully chosen to produce Grande Couvée 2004 – Certeze in so called "barell selection".
*100 % new barriques; the combination of Seguin Moreau, Muid'Oc (320L) & Seguin Moreau (225L); the combination of medium toasted and untoasted (burgundy barrel)
FILTRATION: Unfiltered.
BOTTLING: March 07
NO. OF BOTTLES: 5000 of 0,75 bottles, 144 of 4,5 L (rehoboam) bottles
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14% vol
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 2,7 g/L
ACID: 6 g/L (wine acid)
PH: 3,5
RECOMMENDED SERVING TEMPERATURE: Room temperature (18 - 20°C). Requires decanting.
AGING POTENTIAL: 20 years (enologist Claude Gros, Narbonne)
COLOUR: deep ruby red of the "dark king" – refosco (re di fosco) (enologist Claude Gros, Narbonne).
NOSE: a whole basket of fruits (blackcurrant, plum, blackberry, slight breath of peach), chocolate and real espresso coffee (enologist Claude Gros, Narbonne)
PALATE: the taste is nothing but moving: extreme fullness and perfect harmony of mature tannines and fruitness. Still fresh, truly silky and velvet at the same time. Mocha and cocoa mix beautifully with blackcurrant, plum and roast meat. It is not even wine anymore, it is the food for the spirit. (enolog Claude Gros, Narbonne)
Grande Cuvée Certeze 2004 & FOOD: Dishes with strong flavour, based on red meat, combined with Mediterranean spices. Venison (deer, bear, roe deer, boar), lamb, smoked meat,truffles, cheese and mouldy cheese. Chocolate with high cocoa content (more than 70%).
NOTE: Vintage 2004 was quite unusal for Slovenian Istria with the summer drought failing and raining heavier than usual. The weather was far from ideal for the maturing of the red wines and the 2004 is widely considered as a poor vintage year. But Grande Cuvée Certeze 2004 proves, that even in poor vintage years, with effort and sacrifice, as well as drastic reduction of quanity, a great wine can be produced.