Description
VISUAL PHASE: It has a cherry color, with intense garnet rims.
OLFATIVE PHASE: On the nose it is complex, highlighting great maturity of red fruits in an initial phase, then passing to slight hints of violets and many balsamic and mentholated notes with toasted wood backgrounds (cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper and some vanilla).
TASTE PHASE: In the mouth it is soft and sweet, tasty and well structured, very fruity, with sensations of red fruit (currants), toasted and noble aromatic woods (cedar), excellent soft and ripe tannins. Very long and complex, with a lot of life ahead.
APPELLATION OF ORIGIN: Ribera del Duero.
GRAPE VARIETIES: Tinto Fino, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec. Selected among vineyards located between 750 and 1000 m of altitude and among 37 plots of 22 municipalities in the Ribera del Duero.
HARVEST AND PREPARATION: The winter 2015 - 2016 was cold and dry. Spring not very warm and with abundant rains in April and May, with moderate insolation. The summer was very dry and hot, with maximum temperatures above average. It was a climatologically almost perfect year for the vineyard. The harvest began on October 4 and ended on November 3 with the Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes came in healthy and dry, with good weather and little rain. The yields were higher than expected and yet the quality of the grapes was excellent. In the winery the movement of the grapes is by gravity, without pumps, smoothly. The grapes arrive destemmed and whole at the warehouse.
BREEDING: 12 months in 225 l French oak barrels, from different forests. At the end of aging, 46 different wines were obtained, depending on the origin of the grape and the type of barrel. This wine is the final blend of all of them. Bottled in early April 2018.
Alcoholic grade: 15% vol .; Acidity: 4.9 g / l tartaric; pH: 3,59; Dry extract: 28.5 g / l; Glycerin: 9.10 g /
CLARIFIED WITH NATURAL EGG WHITE.
PRODUCTION: Of this wine, 140,332 750 ml bottles, 6,344 1,500 ml bottles and 192 5-liter bottles have been produced.
