Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta

Merlot 2021

Name: Merlot 2021
SKU: 245620
Availability: InStock

Red wine / Dry

16,00 €

Delivery time: max. 4 days

14.0% vol. | 750ml | Quality wine

This high-quality Merlot impresses with its highly complex flavor: in addition to fruit aromas, tobacco and vanilla play a lively role.

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Additional information

Wine line: Castle Winery Sovereign Order of Malta
Origin: Mailberg/Weinviertel
Wine type: Red wine
Character: Dry
Grape variety: Merlot
Bottle size: 750 ml
Alcohol content: 14.0%
Aging: Barrique (14 months, 100% new Allier oak)
Contains: Sulfites

Energy per 100 ml: 327 kJ/78 kcal

Tasting notes & food pairing recommendations

Visual impression: Dark ruby garnet with violet reflections.

Bouquet: Cherry fruit and tobacco.

Taste: Juicy, delicate extract sweetness, full-bodied, fine tannin structure, dark nougat, long-lasting finish. With considerable aging potential.

Food pairing: Perfect with game and steaks.

Origin

Mailberg / Wine Country

Surrounded by picturesque mountains, the market town of Mailberg nestles in a natural basin. The slopes around Mailberg are mostly planted with vineyards. The soils in Mailberg are calcareous and covered with loamy sands and loess. Around 1,800 hours of sunshine per year and average annual rainfall of 450 mm provide ideal conditions for winegrowing. The fresh continental climate in the northern Weinviertel region and the wind-protected location of the vineyards in the small valley give the wines a very individual character, which was responsible for their fame hundreds of years ago.

Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta

The castle winery Souveräner Malteser Ritterorden is located about 70 kilometers northwest of Vienna, near the Czech border in a small valley called “Mailberg Valley”. The Lenz Moser winery has been cultivating the 50 hectares of vineyards since 1969.

For more than 20 years now, winery manager Norbert Gutmayer has accompanied the estate’s wines from the vineyard to bottling. Quality comes before quantity, so the yields per hectare are deliberately kept low in order to harvest particularly aromatic, fully ripe grapes.

Learn more about the Schlossweingut Malteser-Ritter-Orden