Winery MeliniVinsanto Antico
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Melini's Vinsanto Antico.
Discover the grape variety: Ohanès
Table grape with long bunches and thick-skinned golden berries with crunchy flesh, a balanced sweet flavour, ideal for extended winter storage. Late-ripening and suited to the dry Andalusian climate. Grown mainly for fresh consumption in Spain, appreciated for its attractive appearance and excellent winter shelf life on European markets. Spanish white table grape, autochthonous from Almería in Andalusia.
Informations about the Winery Melini
The Winery Melini is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 69 wines for sale in the of Vin Santo to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Vin Santo
Tuscan sweet liqueur wine made since the Middle Ages: white grapes (Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia) dried on racks then pressed in March, fermentation and ageing 3-10 years in small caratelli casks. Golden to amber robe, intense notes of honey, dried apricot, fig, Corinth raisin, walnut and caramelised touch, rich palate balanced by signature acidity. DOC Vin Santo del Chianti and variants. Meditation wine, dessert, biscotti.
The wine region of Tuscany
Kingdom of Sangiovese: upright reds with cherry, plum, dried herbs and leather, lively acidity and firm tannins. Fleshy, food-friendly Chianti Classico DOCG, deep long-ageing Brunello di Montalcino (spice, tobacco, ripe black fruit), elegant Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. On the coast, Bolgheri crafts the opulent Cabernet- and Merlot-based 'Super Tuscans'. Some fresh white Vernaccia.
The word of the wine: Rafle (taste of)
A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.
