2020 Syrah, Perfect Simplu, Catleya

• Grape Variety: 100% Syrah
• Vineyard: young vines located in Corcova, Romania; organic grapes;
  
• Style: dry red wine, purple color, round and balanced tannic structure, specific to the grape variety, and reinforced by ageing in Romanian oak barrels; 13.5% vol alc.
• LIMITED EDITION: 4864 bottles

Wine-making:

• Hand harvested in small crates;
• Pre fermentation maceration for 9 days to extract colour and aromas;
  
• Alcoholic fermentation performed by indigenous yeasts;
• Post fermentation maceration for 12 days to extract tannins;
• Malolactic fermentation performed by indigenous yeasts;
• ageing for 12 months (80% in stainless steel tanks and 20% in new Romanian oak barrels with medium toast)

About the grape variety

Syrah is seemingly originally from the northern Côtes du Rhône or the Dauphiné region. Syrah can produce great quality red wines with a fairly high alcohol degree, that are suited to ageing. This variety gives very aromatic, fine, tannic, robust, complex (spices, violet, olive, leather-animal, etc) wines with relatively low acidity (pH is sometimes rather high, particularly on schist soils), which tend to have an intense (blue-toned) color. Syrah also produces very fruity and interesting rosé wines.

About the winery

Laurent Pfeffer is a french wine engineer and oenologist trained in Bordeaux, who first discovered Romania during a period of study and never wanted to leave. After realising the viticultural potential of Romania, he decided to look for land suitable for growing vines. Fate directed him to Corcova, where he discovered the history and winemaking tradition of this region. 

In 2007 he decided to settle here and founded the Catleya estate, which he currently runs together with his wife, Anne-Cecile. Since 2021, the Catleya estate has been converting to organic farming, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, in order to materialise our efforts through the certification of an approved body.