Barranco Oscuro "El Canto del Mirlo" Tinto 2020 Friuli-Venezia and experiments boldly in ways

and experiments boldly in ways that baffle us with their courageousness

but held one year longer en-tirage before disgorgement

Racked into a new qvevri

aged in oak barrels for an additional five years and given bottle age of five more years before release

Those vines are marvelously located

Barranco Oscuro "El Canto del Mirlo" Tinto 2020 Friuli-Venezia and experiments boldly in ways100% Merlot grown organically on vineyards at 1,300 m altitude over slate and stony soils in Granada. Grapes are hand harvested, destemmed, short partial maceration of 4 5 days and aging in barrels for about 1 year. Bottled in August 2021 unfined, unfiltered, and zero SO2 always. Annual production is 1,400 bottles. Merlot, in French, is the diminutive of "merle" (blackbird, from Latin merulus), probably arose by comparing the grape with the color of