WINERIES
Noblesse Merlot Rosé
A light-bodied dry rosé made from free run juice from Merlot grapes with just a few hours on skins.
It was fermented and aged for 6 months in 500 litre Hungarian oak with battonage to give a rosé with much more depth and complexity than usual. This is a rosé that will keep!
What the critics say:
I don’t normally like most Rosés as I feel they are wines that don’t know what they want to be when they grow up. I also am not over-fond of Merlot in any form (I won’t go as far as Miles in the movie “Sideways” – “I ain’t drinking no f*cking Merlot!” – but I’m not far from that). So it came as a surprise that one of my favourite wines was Csaba’s Merlot Rosé. This is a wine for grown-ups.
The wine is a dark rose hip colour with almost florescent highlights. Made in the saignée style with 4-5 hours of skin contact, it is brilliant and appealing to look at.
The nose is serious, full of juicy strawberry fruit and spice.
Sweet stewed strawberries with a mineral backbone on the palate, soft, creamy and rich with a long finish.
A wine with real personality
Paula Sindberg, 2009