Bottle size: 0,75 L
Vintage: 2019
Like a poem it combines welschriesling, yellow muscat and royal white. Never trapped in an oak barrel, it prides itself with lightness of fruits put upon an elder blossom. It is created for those who seek fruit flavours in fresh white wines.
Distinctive colour and taste
Beli Zajc is white couvee – a sort of two world and one indigenous variety each of which contributes its characteristics. Welschriesling gives its strong body, yellow muscat gives its fragrant bouquet and royal white gives its youthful acidity. A lemon-like shade sparkles in the glass. The bouquet is medium stressed and youthful. The wine is dry, light and simple.
Ideal for refreshment
It was created for those who seek fruit flavours in fresh white wines. It is perfect with grilled chicken. For refreshment, you can mix it with mineral water (1 : 1) in the shadow on a sunny summer afternoon. It is the best a year after grape harvesting.
Appelation
Dolenjska
Serving temperature
10 - 12 °C
Vintage
2019
Colour
White wine
Sweetness
dry
Alcohol
11,5 vol. %
Varietals
Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay, Sauvignon
Tasting note
Light fruits, elderflower. Vibrant, fresh bouquet. It's great basis for a sinfully good gemist. Serve with grilled chicken and salad in the shade of the afternoon summer sun.
Awards
2020: Vino Slovenija Silver
Bottle size
Volume: 0,75 L
Density
5.000 vines/ha
Climate
continental climate
Annual production
12.000 bottles/year
Line
Zajc
Vine training
lower sparrow vine cultivation
Residual sugar
8,0 g/l
Ageing potential
Cool to appropriate and enjoy.
Acidity
6,98 g/l
Bottling
right before sell
Terrain
South and SE
Quality scheme
Protected designation of origin (PDO)
Soil
Limestones and dolomites
Harvest notes
Harvesting took place by varieties in the morning. Each variety waited for the moment of appropriate ripeness of the grapes. The grapes are nurtured in a nature-friendly way, are strictly selected and are picked exclusively by hand.
Vinification
The grapes were immediately pressed, and then each variety was fermented separately with indigenous yeasts. After the fermentation was completed, we performed typification and stored the wine in a chilled steel tank.
Ageing
After typification, the wine matures in refrigerated stainless steel tanks and waits to be bottled just before sale.
It should be served with grilled chicken and salad in the shadow on a sunny summer afternoon. You should also try it with sauteed asparagus wrapped in bacon.
Across the Gorjanci bordering Bela krajina, along the Krka river all the way to its outflow into the Sava river the hilly Dolenjska continues across the Sava river towards Sremič and Bizeljsko area. This is where family Zajc make wines full of life.