Terrano 2018 - Cotar

Terrano - Cotar

Terrano is a structured red wine made from Terrano grapes from a 27-year-old organic-grown vineyard on red soil. After manual harvesting of the grapes, manual pressing with a wooden press and spontaneous fermentation in open 15 hl wooden vats with maceration on the skins for 10 days. It continues its aging for more than 40 months in the same containers on the fine lees and 4 months in the bottle. No clarification and filtration before bottling. Only 4000 bottles produced. Terrano has an intense ruby ​​red color. The nose aromas recall red fruit, blueberries and blackberry. In the mouth it is of medium structure, sapid, nervous with a slight tannicity and very typical of the territory.

Service

It is advisable to serve it at a temperature of 16/18 ° in balloon cups. Daily wine but if left in the cellar a few years can give you great emotions.

Pairing

Terrano is an important wine that combines with tasty dishes, large-scale slices, to try with roast lamb and raw ham of the carp.

Cellar: Cotar

The Branco & Vasja Cotar winegrowing company is located in the small village of Gorjansko, located to the west of the Karst region. Here the landscape is stony and wild, windy and mild, from the north comes the snow and the sea the "mornik" wind that spins on the red earth where it grows and produces the vine. The Cotar family has always lived in these areas; In the 1970s they ran a tavern where they sold the wine they produced, a red Teran and a white belarus. In the 90's they decided to handle the inn for lunch only on reservation and focus on wine production. Branko, assisted by his son, Vasja handles 8 hectares of vineyard, divided into several parcels, farmed according to biodynamic dictates. The cellar is dug into the rock and as mature wine is moved more and more deeply. Wine production is in line with local traditions and white wines are vinified as red with macerations of 4 to 10 days. The fermentations take place in oak casks from 225 to 2000 liters with native yeast from the vineyard. Maturation occurs in barrels ranging from 2 to 3 years for white wines and 4 to 5 years for red wines. Wines are not filtered to avoid being impoverished, so any bottle sediment is not a sign of defect. Two lines of wine produced, namely Dražna and Čotar, differing only for a longer barrel aging in the Čotar line.