CLIMATIC CYCLE
Winter marked by very low temperatures and frequent frosts. Hot spring with low rainfall. Hard summer. Maturation with cool daytime temperatures and cool nighttime temperatures.
Precipitation of 305 mm. Harvest from September 29 to October 14. Extraordinary harvest quality with elegant, full-bodied fruit wines.
Production area:
D.O.Ribera del Duero
Variety:
100% Tinta del País (Tempranillo)
Vineyards:
Small plots in La Horra, Roa and nearby villages in Burgos.
Age of the vineyards:
Bush vines with an average age of 20 years
Harvest:
Hand-picked in 16 kg crates and hand sorted at the winery
Fermentation:
Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel vats, followed by malolactic fermentation i French oak barrels
Aging:
14 months in barrique, 80% French and 20% American
Stabilisation:
Natural methods
Clarification:
Lyophilized egg white
Alcohol content:
14,5% Vol.
Packaging:
Carton cases of 6 bottles
Formats:
Bottles of 50cl, 75cl, 1,5l, 3l and 6l.
Colour:
Very deep, with bigarreau cherry bottom and a red bluish rim.
Nose:
Very deep, with the oaky almost imperceptible. Plentiful red and black fruits, in the line of the blackberry. With the remembrance of the aromatic herbs and the scrubland.
The aromas are growing in the glass and appear among the fruits, hints of ground together with the herbs, all is enveloped in a veil of cocoa and the warm and refreshing sensation of the pine forest during the summer.
Palate:
Voluminous, structured, full, it envelops the mouth, tannins of great quality are present. The ripe fruits envelop, leaving the sensation of blackberry, cocoa and the aromatics under the pine forest.
The finish is long, of ripe fruit and freshness.
It remembers the extraordinary 2009 harvest, with an excellent ripening and carrying the aromas of the landscape in the afternoons in the early of the autumn, maintaining the freshness.
