Winery Weinbau CottinelliMalans Freisamer
White wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Weinbau Cottinelli's Malans Freisamer.
Discover the grape variety: Calitor
Calitor is a black grape variety of Provençal origin that is not widely grown in France. It is only cultivated on a little more than a hundred hectares in total. The main characteristic of this variety is its bent stalk. Its adult leaves have 5 lobes and angular teeth. The leaf blade is both pubescent and downy. The young leaves have a pinkish tinge, especially in autumn. They are also downy. The tip of the calitor branch is cottony. Calitor is a recommended grape variety in the departments of Vaucluse and Var and is authorized in others such as Gard, Drôme and Ardèche. It has two variants, namely the grey calitor and the white calitor. The calitor is matured only 35 days after the chasselas but it is very productive. It appreciates hot and dry soils. This variety is resistant to oidium, but it remains sensitive to grey rot and mildew. Calitor produces a light, low-alcohol wine with little colour.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Malans Freisamer from Winery Weinbau Cottinelli are 2011, 0, 2015, 2014
Informations about the Winery Weinbau Cottinelli
The Winery Weinbau Cottinelli is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 55 wines for sale in the of Malanser to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Malanser
The wine region of Malanser is located in the region of Graubünden of Switzerland. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Donatsch or the Domaine Completer Kellerei produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Malanser are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Pinot gris, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Malanser often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, microbio or tree fruit.
The wine region of Graubünden
Graubunden (or Grisons, in the French language) is the easternmost administrative canton and wine appellation of Switzerland. Bordering Austria, this alpine region boasts just over 400 hectares (990 acres) of Vineyard, predominantly Pinot Noir grown in the Bündner Herrschaft and wider valleys of the Maienfeld region. The largest canton by land area in the country and the source of the Rhine river, Graubunden is basically divided into fertile valley floor and soaring alpine peaks. After making its way down from its source at the Tomasee, high in the Alps, the Rhine turns Northwards, through the substantial valley it has carved for itself over many millennia.
The word of the wine: Bâtonnage
A very old technique that has come back into fashion in modern oenology, which consists of shaking the white wine in the barrels at the end of fermentation, or after fermentation, with a stick or a flail, in order to suspend the fine lees composed of yeasts at the end of their activity. This process is sometimes used for red wines.
