Winery Fratelli MeroniCardo Rosso del Ticino
Red wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Cabernet franc and the Merlot.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
The Cardo Rosso del Ticino of the Winery Fratelli Meroni is in the top 60 of wines of Ticino.
Food and wine pairings with Cardo Rosso del Ticino
Pairings that work perfectly with Cardo Rosso del Ticino
Original food and wine pairings with Cardo Rosso del Ticino
The Cardo Rosso del Ticino of Winery Fratelli Meroni matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of slow-cooked fillet of beef, brazilian feijoada or festive chinese fondue.
Details and technical informations about Winery Fratelli Meroni's Cardo Rosso del Ticino.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cardo Rosso del Ticino from Winery Fratelli Meroni are 2009, 2015, 2017, 2016 and 2012.
Informations about the Winery Fratelli Meroni
The Winery Fratelli Meroni is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in the of Ticino to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Ticino
Ticino is a relatively small wine region in the alpine South of Switzerland, prized for its Merlot, and located along its border with Italy. The wine region's borders follow those of the canton of Ticino, a primarily Italian-speaking enclave in the landlocked multilingual country (the canton is called "Tessin" by the French and German speakers). Vineyard">Vineyards in region cover just over 1,100 hectares (2,700 acres) and are centred around the rivers and large, alpine lakes of the canton. The latter are a major tourist attraction - much like the lake of Como, just 5km (3 miles) from Ticino's southernmost tip - and they all share water with Italy.
The word of the wine: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
