“Original and Spicy”100% Maturana Tinta.
2.223 bottles.
Maturana Tinta is a grape variety indigenous to Rioja which is not grown anywhere else in the world. Recovered after years of work and research, it features a small, compact cluster of small berries. It is very sensitive to botrytis, late sprouting, but early ripening.
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. Gravity-fed into French oak vats with no pumping and individual vinification by plot. Cold macerated and fermented for 20 days with native yeast strains. Gravity racked to new and second-year French oak barrels before malolactic fermentation.
14-month stay in barrels from different cooperages, with different toasting levels and origins, without racking and remaining over lees until bottled, with periodic bâtonnages during the first months. The wine is 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 deep purplish-red, with a marked purple rim. Spicy aromas, with dark fruit, peppercorns, cloves, mulberry leaves, against a mineral and underbrush background. Very balsamic and mineral in the mouth, also with spicy sensations (peppercorns, roses, cummin, cloves) with an elegant, vibrant mouthfeel and long finish.
All kinds of char-grilled and roasted meats, cured cheese and game dishes.
If the 2020 vintage will go down in history due to the pandemic and the challenges it posed to humanity, 2021 will be remembered for “Filomena”, the last major winter storm on record in Spain. A historic snowfall between January 6th and 9th, 2021, hydrated the land like it had not been seen in years. Spring once again proved to be humid, especially in the Tudelilla area, with over 100 liters of rainfall from April to May. An unusual summer then followed, with a cool and dry July, further delaying the vineyard's cycle, and culminating in an ideal August for grape growing loaded of warm days and cool nights, resulting in a harvest date in October, almost reminiscent of another era. Late green harvesting and a light leaf thinning were carried out in the cluster zone at the onset of veraison to enhance better sunlight exposure and cluster aeration, promoting maturation. The clusters were loose and uniform, reaching full ripeness, which is somewhat complex in this variety. Harvest took place on October 20th in both vinyeards.
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