Winery BarbaleMtsvane Qvevri
White wine
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Details and technical informations about Winery Barbale's Mtsvane Qvevri.
Discover the grape variety: Gros Colman
Table grape with long clusters and spherical blue-black berries with thick skin and juicy flesh, with a pleasant sweet taste. Late-ripening. Very rarely vinified. Father of the Alphonse Lavallée. Now marginal in commercial cultivation, it survives in a few amateur gardens and ampelographic collections for its heritage value and genetic interest. French black table grape variety, grown for fresh consumption in the 19th century.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Mtsvane Qvevri from Winery Barbale are 0, 2017
Informations about the Winery Barbale
The Winery Barbale is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 27 wines for sale in the of Kakheti to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Kakheti
Cradle of amber and orange wines, vinified in qvevri (buried clay jars, UNESCO). Skin-macerated Rkatsiteli whites: signature notes of dried apricot, walnut, honey, orange peel and black tea, fine tannins and controlled oxidation. Deep, tinctorial Saperavi reds with black fruit, plum, spice and firm tannins, age-worthy. Also Mtsvane and Kisi in white, fresh and floral.
The word of the wine: Old vines
There are no specific regulations governing the term "vieilles vignes". After 20 to 25 years, the yields stabilize and tend to decrease, the vines are deeply rooted, and the grapes that come from them give richer, more concentrated, more sappy wines, expressing with more nuance the characteristics of their terroir. It is possible to find plots of vines that claim to be a century old.
