Plantaze Vranac Barrique Premium
| Item ID | 230899 |
| Brand | Plantaze |
| Name | Plantaze Vranac Barrique Premium |
| UOM | 6/750ml (14.5%) |
| Country | Montenegro |
| UPC | 3899003001131 |
The wine has a dark ruby red color with purple hues. It has multi-layered aromas of red fruits, black currant, blackberry, followed by chocolate, caramel and licorice notes. On taste is complex, full of fruity tones of cherry, prune, chocolate and creamy caramel. Wine is rounded, soft and aroma of toasted oak and smoke can be felt.
Grapes for this wine comes from the best parcels of Ćemovsko polje. Itwas picked in the period of full, technological ripeness with the best polyphenolic complex and high sugar content. The wine has a dark ruby red color with purple hues. It has multi-layered aromas of red fruits, black currant, blackberry, followed by chocolate, caramel and licorice notes. On taste is complex, full of fruity tones of cherry, prune, chocolate and creamy caramel. Wine is rounded, soft and aroma of toasted oak and smoke can be felt.
Harvest
Despite the extremely high temperatures and dry weather, the harvest of 2015 was of exceptional quality, not only for the production of red but also for white wines. The grapes were in excellent health. The harvest was carried out exclusively at night (because of the lower temperatures) in order to preserve the full aromatic potential of grapes.
Vineyard
| VITICULTURAL AREA | Valley of Lake Skadar, Podgorica’s viticultural area |
| LOCATION | Ćemovsko polje; microlocalities: Šipčanik, Nikolj Crkva |
| EXPOSITION | North-South |
| SOIL | shallow, skeletal |
| PLANTING DENSITY | 2.60 x 0.70 m and 2.60×0.90 m |
| CULTIVATION | unilateral and bilateral Guyot |
| AVERAGE AGE OF GRAPEVINES | from 3 to 36 years |
Technical information
| GRAPE VARIETY | Vranac
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| YIELD | 6–8 t/ha |
| HARVEST TIME | second half of Septembar |
| HARVEST METOD | manual |
| VINIFICATION | alchocol fermentation in the inox tanks, MLF in barrique barrels |
| TEMPERATURE OF FERMENTATION | from 25 to 27 °C |
| DURATION OF FERMENTATION | 12–14 days |
| MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION | Inoculation of bacteria for MLF |
| AGING | barrique barrels for a year (80% french, 20% american oak), one year in inox tanks and a year in bottle.
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| DURATION OF AGING | 3 years |
| CHEMICAL ANALYSIS | alcohol–14.5 %vol, pH–3.56, total acids–6.0 g/l |