Description

VINIFICATION
50% of the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are partially dried and then blended
with Corvina and the remaining Cabernet.
After a slow fermentation in steel tanks at a controlled temperature between
22-26°C for 40 days, a short maceration on the skins takes place. Once
malolactic fermentation has been completed, the wine is aged for 12 months
in French oak barrels from Hennessy.
These strong toasted barrels are 10 years old and have been used to produce
excellent spirits like XO, Napoleon III, Paradis.

TASTING NOTES
Rich, fleshy and complex on the palate with layers of dark fruit.
The use of barrels creates notes on the nose of vanilla bourbon from the La
Reunion islands, very sweet but delicate – baba’ cream and mascarpone notes
with rum, almonds, officinal herbs, dry vegetables, hay. Very soft and velvety
tannins mouthfeel and aftertaste of coconut, vanilla, dried fruit with a very
long finish and light smoky notes.

FOOD PAIRINGS
Excellent with red meats, barbecue, duck and game.

The name LUí comes from a little bird that lives in the Cognac and
Veneto regions. The poem on the label is Catullus II or “Sparrow, the
Special Delight of My Girl” (Il passerotto di Lesbia) by Catullus.