Compagnis del Vino Cecante Maremma DOC ” Il Grillino”

Compagnis del Vino Cecante Maremma DOC “Il Grillino”, Cabernet Sauvignon in Tuscany, Italy. A beautiful deep red wine with a distinct aroma of liquorice, cassis black cherry and mocha. The slightly burnt oak note is balanced with good acidity, giving this wine a very elegant character. Cabernet Sauvignon must was fermented in oak barrels and the wine then aged for a further 16 months in new oak. Tuscany is an absolute top region where wine has been grown since the Middle Ages. There are great houses operating that continue the centuries-old tradition of winemaking with brilliant wines like these. A superb wine with red meat with black truffle, lamb and delicious mushrooms.

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. By applying modern vinification techniques, young wines can now also be drinkable quickly. In general, the wines have a high phenol content, they are purple (young) or dark red (old) and have a lot of strength and structure. Cabernet Sauvignon can be found all over the world. Wherever someone wants to make a ‘serious’ wine, cabernet sauvignon is planted.