Merlot "Ponka", Paraschos - 2016

Name: Merlot "Ponka", Paraschos
Brand: Paraschos
SKU: 41744
Price: 26.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 41744 750mL

The Paraschos family became hooked on Friulian wines after tasting wines to the likes of Gravner and La Castellada. They endeavored to make wines in the same fashion starting with their purchase of a vineyard in the 1990s. This is a delicious red wine. Grapes are hand harvested, destemmed, and macerated in open topped wooden vats for 20 days. Hand punchdowns are performed about 4-5 times per day. The skins are pressed to stainless steel tanks for about 4 days at cellar temperature. Then the wine is racked, with the fine lees, to 2500 and 500-liter oak barrels for elevage. Bottled unfiltered.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2016

Country

Italy

Region

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Producer

Paraschos

Grape Variety

Merlot

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

Paraschos is a two generation family winery in the Collio region outside of Gorizia, a border town between Italy and Slovenia. It's an area with a lot of cross cultural pollination from cuisine to wine. This mixture along with the area's mineral rich "Ponka" soil - giving its wines a spectacular purity - make Collio a distinct region. This wine is entirely hand made with utmost care for the environment from organic vineyards. The final product is un-filtered which gives it an exceptionally earthy vibe. Aromas have a medicinal-like quality with dried fruits and leaves. The palette is rustic with notes of plums, figs, goji berries, even some pine tree sap. A fine example of Merlot grown in a cool climate region.

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