Malvasia 4 stati 2021 - Marko Fon

Malvasia 4 Stati - Marko Fon

La Malvazjia "Quattro Stati" is a legendary wine produced with grapes that come from a small vineyard located just outside the town of Gorjansko consisting of a few dozen plants. Vineyards that were planted during the Austro-Hungarian domination, after the First World War they became Italian, in 1945 they took the Yugoslav passport and today they are Slovene. The harvested grapes, which give about 300 bottles, are equally divided between the two owners, Marko Tavčar and Marko Fon. La Malvazjia "Quattro Stati" has a golden color. Nose of depth and complexity, with aromas of apricot, candied orange, hints of ginger, and aromatic herbs.The mouth is impressive for volumetric effect, balanced acidity, and persistence of minutes on citrus notes and ripe white fruit.

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.