Vikoska Selezione 2016 - Marko Fon

Vitosha Selezione - Marko Fon

The Vikoska Selezione is a complex and dynamic white wine made from pure Vitoska grapes. The grapes come from old vines between 32 and 61 years old. The harvest of the grapes is manual with spontaneous vinification with only indigenous yeasts. After malolactic fermentation it matures for 24 months in an old 640 liter barrel. It is not filtered before being bottled. The Vitoska Selection of Fon is golden yellow. The nose is complex and elegant with aromas of yellow-fleshed fruit, followed by honeyed, spicy and mineral 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 tulipes. Wine to drink immediately, but it holds the aging well.

Pairing

Excellent with first courses, seafood seconds, to try with angler filet wrapped in speck.

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.