MONUMENT
Carnuntum DAC
Zweigelt | Merlot | St. Laurent
2022
bio-organic
TASTING NOTE
Dark berry fruit, fine herbal spice. Juicy red cherries. Freshly structured, fine supporting tannins, mineral aftertaste. Accessible, subtle extract sweetness on the finish. Nougat in the aftertaste. A great and universal food accompaniment.
VINIFICATION
Hand-picking and pre-selection in the vineyard. Optical sorting of the grapes at the winery. Temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel tanks. Gently submerging and flooding the mash cake several times a day. After 21 days on the grape skins, biological malolactic fermentation in French barriques. Subsequent storage and maturation for 14 months in French wooden barrels.
ripeness of the grapes 21.5 °KMW
Alcohol in % vol 14.0
Acid in g/l 5.1
Residual sugar in g/l 1.0
Monument 2022
Food Recommendations
Dark meat, Grill Dishes
Pasta, Pizza, Lasagna
Wine Region
regional wine
Carnuntum DAC
Vineyards
Ried Hagelsberg
Goettlesbrunn
Ried Haidacker
Goettlesbrunn
Ried Kräften
Göttlesbrunn
Soil
Calcareous soils of loam and loess
Gritty sediments on the topsoil
Harvest
Handpicked September + October 2022