Vitigno: 100% Merlot
Production area: : Colli di Castelcucco, Monfumo, Asolo.
Land characteristics: Colli Asolani altitude 200-250 meters/sm south-east exposure, slightly calcareous clay soil, non-weeded vineyards.
Color: intense red with purple reflections. Ethereal, characteristic, with notes of red fruit (black cherry, cherry jam), hazelnut, almond and coffee. Of excellent consistency, structured and complex.
Serving temperature: 16-18 C°
Alcohol content: 14.00%
Winemaking: traditional method with maceration on the skins for at least 15 days with double daily pumping over at the end of fermentation, racking and passage into oak barrels.
Yield per hectare: 50 quintals/hectare
Harvest period: Totally manual harvest in the second ten days of October
Pairings: Ideal for meat pie and for all meat-based second courses.
The harvest is entirely manual and we try to enter the plants as little as possible. Pat del Colmel was one of the first companies in the area to obtain SQNPI certification.
An institution more than a farm. Gabriella and Lino, with their son Matteo, fifth generation, can therefore be considered living monuments, witnesses of good viticulture not conditioned by fashions, their wines have the greatest value in their personality.
The Asolo area was once rich in vineyards mainly of Glera, Bianchetta, Verdiso, Marzemina Bianca and the rarer Recantina. For the Forner family nicknamed Pat, winemaking began in 1875, with the spouses Pina and Pietro Forner, the love for the land and its fruits has been handed down from generation to generation until today with Gabriella, Lino and their son Matteo .
