Malvasia Istriana Selezione 2021 - Marko Fon

Malvasia Istriana Selezione  - Marko Fon

Malvasia Istriana Selezione is a complex white wine made from 100% Malvasia Istriana grapes. The grapes come from vineyards with an age between 32 and 61 years. The harvest of the grapes is manual with spontaneous vinification with only indigenous yeasts. After the malolactic fermentation it ages for 17 months in an old 640 liter barrel. It is not filtered before being bottled. The Malvasia Selection of Fon is golden yellow. The nose is elegance with notes of yellow-fleshed fruit, honeyed and spicy notes. The taste is enveloping, warm, characterized by a beautiful freshness. The finish is of an obstinate persistence. A wine of extraordinary elegance. The light of the bottled karst.

Service

It is advisable to taste it at a temperature of 10/12 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but with excellent aging resistance.

Pairing

Excellent with first courses, fish or fried second courses, to try with saffron chicken fillets.

Cellar: Marko Fon

Marko Fon is a wine poet, a wine grower who is in love with his work and his country, a natural winery. His company is located in Slovenia, in Komen, a small village in the karst. His family has been generating these lands for generations and winning with passion and respect. Marko manages four hectares of vineyards that are found on limestone and clay soils rich in minerals. Vineyards are native and always linked to these areas, Malvasia, Vitoska and Terrano for a very small production of only 6000 bottles per year. Marko fon cures his vineyards with biological methods, trying to reduce the treatments to the minimum, without any type of systemic intervention, insecticides and herbicides, uses only copper, but is considering the possibility of eliminating it. In the cellar is the same treatment that begins with spontaneous vinification, indigenous yeasts and refinements in old wooden barrels. The grapes of his Malvasia come from the vineyard called "the 4 states". An old, centenary vineyard located in Gorjansko, still raised on foot, and so called for the 4 witness passages he witnessed. The wines of Marko Fon exalt the fruit, they know how to excite, with an authentic taste that is the expression of the vine and the territory.