ARTIST - Marlais
- Wine type: Top-quality semi-dry red wine
- Vintage: 2022.
- Variety: Plavac mali
- Position/Terroir: Pelješac peninsula – Ponikve
- Alcohol content: 15,5 %
- Volume: 0,5 lit.
By selecting the sweetest berries of the Plavac mali variety from 65-year-old vines in the best positions of our vineyards, the process of creating our top semi-dry Artist wine begins. We pick the juicy grape berries by hand and late, when they are the sweetest, and after an extremely short maceration of only 5 to 6 days, we let them ferment in stainless steel barrels and then age for 24 months in oak barrique barrels.
Through a process of two-year maturation in small oak barrels, the Artist wine has rounded out and acquired a refined aroma, with an abundance of aromatic Mediterranean herbs, then with a slight aroma of ripe berries, then nuances of nuts, and then with some chocolate in the background. It is concentrated and full-flavored, with a firm tannin backbone and serious potential for keeping.
This superb semi-dry wine is the best accompaniment to dark chocolate, with at least 75% cocoa content, and creamy cakes with hazelnuts and almonds. In addition to desserts, it goes well with an appetizer of blue cheese and ricotta cheese with honey.
