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  • Ermes Pavese Ninive Vino da Uve Stramature 0,5L
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Ermes Pavese Ninive Vino da Uve Stramature 0.5L

Ermes Pavese Ninive Vino da Uve Stramature 0.5L

€59,95 EUR
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Food pairings

  • Blue cheese
  • Alpine cheeses
  • Mature goat cheeses
  • Nut cakes

Try it with

  • Foie gras
  • Apple tart
  • Almond cake
This dessert wine is made from overripe, frost-touched Prié Blanc grapes and actually comes across as dry with only hints of sweetness, but in return it has an intense aroma of alpine herbs, almonds, dried fruit and honey, along with a fresh acidity from the cool mountain altitude. The fresh acidity and the nutty, honeyed character make it ideal for rich, salty cheeses, where sweetness and acidity balance the salt and fat. The dried fruits and candied citrus peels are beautifully mirrored in desserts with nuts, honey and citrus, while the classic companion foie gras benefits from the contrast between the rich liver and the wine's fresh, concentrated fruit.

Taste profile

Product details

Country Italy
Region Valle d'Aosta
Grapes Prié Blanc
Bottle size 50 cl
Alcohol 13%
Cork type Cork

About the wine

When the first frost has set in, the last remaining grapes are harvested, which then become Ninive - a fantastic dessert wine of the eiswein type, or Vino da Uve Stramature (wine of overripe grapes), as they call it in Morgex.

The grapes are 100% Prié Blanc and come from Morgex, and are harvested at an altitude of 900-1,200 metres. It is harvested by hand typically during the first ten days of December, when the night frost reaches between -8 °C and -10 °C. The grapes are pressed and the juice is frozen and transferred to stainless steel tanks. After fermentation, the wine matures further in the steel tanks and is bottled the coming autumn, followed by four months of aging in the bottle.

Nineveh appears with a deep golden color. The wine has an intense aroma of alpine herbs (thyme, juniper), almonds, dried fruit and honey. The taste is dry with exciting hints of candied citrus peel and sweet spices. It is a well-balanced and harmonious mouthful.

This is a very small production of approx. 800-1000 bottles per year.

Note! 0.5 liter bottle

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