“Minerality and Singularity”100% Mazuelo.
1.257 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. Individual vinification of grapes from El Castaño and Martinete. Gravity-fed into French oak vats with no pumping. Cold macerated and fermented for 18 days with native yeast strains. Gravity racked to new French oak barrels before malolactic fermentation.
14-month stay in new French oak 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.
Deep purple, with a garnet-red rim inking the glass. Intense aromas of ripe black and red fruit (blackberries, raspberries), underbrush, fresh herbs and coffee, all of it enveloped by an earthy, mineral component. In the mouth, it is very fresh, fruity and balsamic, with soft tannins and a long, powerful, complex, persistent finish.
Stews, pulses, meat casseroles and all kinds of char-grilled meat.
After the severe frost of 2017, 2018 turned out to be a cold vintage with an Atlantic personality, with a very high rainfall, aggregating 655 l/m² over the total growing cycle. The wet winter brought a spectacular snowfall on Christmas Day, coupled with continued freezing cold. The vineyards budded in mid-April, almost two weeks later than in 2017. The spring was, once again, cold, giving way to a summer with a high incidence of rainfall, particularly in July. There was no rain in August. The grapes took two weeks longer to ripen than in 2017, offering a very aromatic profile, with good acidity and high cellaring potential.
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