Lacerta Chardonnay Reserva, Dealu Mare

Description

Lacerta Chardonnay Reserva is 100% Chardonnay, sourced from the oldest wines on the estate, which are now 10 years old. Lacerta Winery is at the forefront of the new wave of quality Romanian wine producers. The winery is located approximately 100kms to the north east of Bucharest. Lacerta Winery is one of the most modern wineries in Romania which was achieved with an impressive 7 million Euro investment. The company was founded in 2003 by a group of investors headed by Austrian businessman Walter Friedl. The first vines were planted in 2005, the vineyards now cover some 80 hectares or so, and the first wine was launched in 2011. The ultra-modern winery is almost entirely gravity-fed with minimal use of pumps to move the wine around. The theory behind this is that the handling of the wine is gentler, the wine is not subjected to agitation (and electric fields, which could have an effect on long chain molecules in the wine) and there is less chance for any oxidation to take place. The wine remains in a more natural state. After harvest, the grapes for the Lacerta Chardonnay Reserva undergo a 2 day period of cold maceration, followed by alcoholic fermentation, malolactic fermentation in tank and then the Lacerta Chardonnay Reserva is aged for 12 months in 225L French oak barriques.