Apátsági Pincészet Hemina Red

Apátsági Pincészet Hemina Red from Pannonhalma, Hungary. This is an elegant “Pannonhalma Bordeaux”. A beautiful dark red wine with pleasant, fresh aromas of red fruit and plums. Soft tannins provide a very elegant wine with a beautiful structure.
This wine consists of 70% merlot and 30% cabernet sauvignon. After pressing and fermentation, it rested for 8 months in Hungarian oak barrels.

Cabernet Sauvignon is best known in Bordeaux where, together with merlot and cabernet franc, it produces high-class wines. It needs a lot of heat to ripen, otherwise it will become green and juicy with a taste of green pepper. Too much heat makes it soft and jam-like, with a taste of blackcurrants. Cabernet Sauvignon produces very aromatic wines with scents of blackcurrant, vanilla, spices (pepper), tobacco, plum, cherry, toasted bread and cedar. The wines usually have a long shelf life, have a lot of tannin and in principle have to mature in barriques.

Merlot is one of the oldest Vitis vinifera varieties that ripens earlier than Carbernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Merlot is important in Bordeaux, especially in Saint-Emilion and Pomerol. Merlot plantings have increased significantly in recent years. The grape is very popular worldwide and people are increasingly realizing that Merlot must be planted in a fairly cool vineyard. This grape produces dark, cool, soft, spicy and fruity wines.

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