Grand Vintage Malbec, 1.5 L
- Grand Vintage Malbec, 1.5 L
- Grand Vintage Malbec, 0.75 L
- Wine type: Red wine
- Vintage: 2023
- Volume: 1500 ml
- Fermentation: Oak fermentation, Stainless-steel fermentation
- Maturation: 6-12 month
- Red wines
The best grapes of each vintage grown on the best organic certified vineyard. The most suitable varieties for the terroir of Dabovets vineyard. This is the Grand Vintage brand. It consists of three exceptional varietal red wines and each of them reveals the nature of Mogilovo village and the passion of Midalidare: Syrah, Malbec, and Cabernet Franc.
Information
Tasting notes: Extremely intensive dark ruby red colour, typical of the variety. Gorgeous bouquet with aromas of plum, ripe cherry, raisins, and spicy herbs. Attractive and memorable palate with fruity notes and spicy taste, long finish, and persistent aftertaste. Grand Vintage Malbec is a wine of exceptional concentration, mild but powerful with well-balanced acidity.
Serving suggestions: Pairs well with lean red meat, roasted pork, turkey, lamb, blue cheese, mozzarella, mushrooms, roasted potatoes and vegetables.
Serving: Serve at 15-18°C, in Syrah Old World glass (mid-size stem, egg-shaped bowl, narrow rim) or regular Red wine glass. Decant at least an hour prior serving.
Occasion: Grand Vintage Malbec is suitable for culinary dinner (wine & dine), a business meeting, a sophisticated cocktail or event, as well as for a gift. It can be added to the Enoteca due to its good aging potential.
Midalidare Grand Vintage Malbec
Grand Vintage Malbec is estate grown and bottled dry red varietal wine Malbec, aged and partly fermented in French oak barrels, with Protected Geographical Indication "Thracian Lowlands", Bulgaria. Produced and bottled in the village of Mogilovo.
Essentials
Appellation and origin: Red wine Malbec "Midaliadre Grand Vintage” from Bulgaria, PGI Thracian Lowlands, Mogilovo. Midalidare estate grown and bottled: Dabovets vineyard (Bio certified).
Grape variety: 100% Malbec.
Vintage: 2023.
Volume: 1500 ml.
Closure: Natural cork.
Alcohol content: 14.5 % vol.
Maturity: Mature. Could benefit from further ageing. Ageing potential is 10 years and more.
Packaging: 4 bottles per case.
Storage: Cool and dark place, at temperature 14-18°С.
Sommelier's advise
Terroir: Dabovets vineyard
- Bio certified,
- Average altitude 360-400 metres,
- Hilly terrain with 10% slope,
- Red clay soils with high presence of iron oxides,
- Mild winter and warm summer,
- Optimal sunshine and rainfall range,
- Great temperature amplitude.
Viticulture: Wine is made at the vineyard
- Plants of French origin,
- Average vine age of 17 years,
- South-North exposure,
- East-West row orientation,
- Double vertical shoot positioning (VSP or double guyot),
- Around 4000 plants per hectare,
- Controlled yield,
- Controlled water balance,
- Twofold regulation of production - green pruning and veraison pruning,
Winemaking:
- Harvest by hand at the end of October.
- Cooling,
- Double sorting and press,
- Cold soak and decanting,
- Slow fermentation in stainless steel vats,
- Slow fermentation in barrels,
- Post-maceration,
- Malolactic fermentation,
- Ageing in French oak barrels for 12 months.
- Mayor's Collection, vintage 2023 - Pardubicky Festival Vina
- Gold medal, vintage 2023 – Pardubicky Festival Vina
- 91 points, vintage 2022 – New Europe Wine Guide
- 2nd place, vintage 2018 – DiVino Top 10
- Bronze medal, vintage 2013 – Decanter
- Silver medal, vintage 2013 – Vinalies Internationales
- Gold medal, vintage 2013 – Mundus Vini
- Winner, Best Bulgarian wine, vintage 2010 – DiVino Top 10
- Gold medal, vintage 2010 – Finger Lake International Wine Competition
- Silver medal, vintage 2010 – International Wine Guide
- Bronze medal, vintage 2010 – IWSC
- Bronze medal, vintage 2010 – Decanter
- Commended, vintage 2010 – Decanter
- Gold medal, vintage 2009 – International Wine Guide
- Silver medal, vintage 2009 – IWSC
