70% Tempranillo, 15% Graciano, 10% Garnacha y 5% Mazuelo.
6.950 bottles.
Manual grape harvest of each grape variety in small, ten kilogram tubs. Cooling in cold room until the temperature of the grapes goes down to 3 °C. Double selection of clusters and grains, with mild destemming and crushing. Separate vinification of each variety. Gravity-fed into French oak vats with no pumping. Each grape variety is cold macerated and fermented individually with native yeast strains: 22 days for Tempranillo, 21 for Graciano, 23 for Garnacha and 22 for Mazuelo. Gravity racked to new and second-year French oak barrels before malolactic fermentation.
16-month stay in barrels from different cooperages, with different toasting levels and origins, without racking. Each of the four wines remains over lees until bottled, with periodic bâtonnages during the first months. The wines are racked and bottled without filtering or fining, so a small amount of natural precipitate may appear over time.
Our bottle is inspired in an original eighteenth-century bottle that is on exhibit at the Vivanco Museum of the Culture of Wine.
Very intense garnet-cherry red. Powerful, complex aroma, with abundant ripe red and dark fruit, and well-integrated find wood. There are also elegant mineral notes, spices, toffee and liquorice. Very expressive in the mouth, with a silky, fresh, tasty, intense mouthfeel, leaving a long aftertaste, complex and elegant.
All kinds of char-grilled red meat, foie gras, casseroles and game dishes.
We will always remember 2020 for the COVID pandemic and its consequences. It paralyzed the world and gave way to one of the most difficult harvests in history. A cold and rainy winter led towards an extremely humid and cold spring; consequently, the pressure of downy mildew and powdery mildew was higher than anyone could remember. The struggle was constant and we lived in the vineyard from May to October, day by day, until the harvest. The result: wines that are less opulent but incredibly frank. Refined, ancestral, delicate, and fruity. True representatives of extreme viticulture and the tireless work of humankind against adversity.