2003 Circeo Rosso DOC Sogno

This superb red wine from the countryside around Rome shows all the quality of modern Italian wines. The name is a promise, because "Sogno" means "dream"...

Tasting Notes
Intense ruby red colour, sometime impenetrable; complex and elegant bouquet, where red fruit emerges with red berries and cherries and  spices amalgamate with sweet vanilla and tobacco leaves; dry, full-bodied taste, harmonious. smoothly tannic and lingering.

Matching
Meat-based dishes such as roasts, grilled meat, game, pasta with meat sauces and mature cheese.

Winemaking Notes
Maceration happens in special, last generation containers, which allows a selective extraction of the polyphenols. It usually lasts between 20-25 days according to the quality of the grapes, and it is temperature-controlled at about 26-28 Celsius degrees.
When the fermentation is completed, the wine is decanted and let to rest in small stainless steel tanks for about 3 months, to allow natural malolactic fermentation.
The wine is then matured in small oak barrels for about 12 months and it is subsequently refined in bottle for 3 months before it is ready for the market.

Back Label Translation
Obtained from a very careful selection of Cesanese and Merlot grapes, it is exclusively produced only in the best vintages. It spents its first year of life in small oak barrels, where it gains unique perfumes and characteristics. Intense ruby red, impenetrable, complex and elegant perfums, with toasted notes and small fruit of the forest; full-bodied taste, smoothly tannic and persistent.
It accompanies important meat-based dishes, chargrilled and roasted preferably, but also game.
The wine had only a slow, natural stabilisation, therefore it is better to decant it, few minutes before serving, to allow the separation of the deposit and give it the right oxigenation that will highlight the taste and the complex nose. It has great aging potential and it is better served at 18-20C, better in big cristal goblet.