Price: 68,75 kn
No matter how silly it is to call this Kitokret, it is even more silly to call it a cuvee. Complications are, as usual, of administrative nature. This is close to 100% Cabernet Franc. Different that “regular Kitokret” which sells in the 40-50 Kuna class.
The wine is as bold as the label on the bottle and unlike it, is actually very serious. A full phenol ripeness can be sensed and an over ripeness of grapes picked in the beginning of November in a year when early varieties were harvested at the end of August. Not even the Venje position in Kutjevo was spared a dry summer full of hot days, but equally hot nights. High sugars and spontaneous fermentation on its own yeasts have given plenty of concentrated fruit to a wine spared overly emphasised sensations of berry fruits and the like. But now, after so much time, there is enough space in the structure for a “wide wine,” cold acids that carry the strength of the body and level the warmth of a 14% red wine.
While the well composed tannin slides down the palate it is hard to blindly guess the harvest year. Fullness on the palate appears quite young, although schooled, while the belly confirms a healthy wine – for those who find two glasses of “regular Kitokret” not enough for the desired effect.
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