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Vintage sheet

2016

An estate wine, made exclusively from grapes from the old vines grown within the walled enclosure of the castle. This wine is only produced in exceptional vintages, when the harvest achieves the maximum expression of the terroir and furthermore, when the balance is perfect.

Vintages produced: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015.
Variety: Tempranillo.
Soil: Alluvial soil from the River Tirón, with lots of pebbles and a chalky clay subsoil, a very deep and loose soil, but with poor, sandy earth with a sandstone base.
Viticulture: Bush vines over 40 years old grown organically.
Harvesting: In the last week of October in 20 kilo crates and using a sorting table.
Vinification process: Alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel and malolactic fermentation in the cask.
Ageing: 24 months in new and semi-new, extra-fine grain French-oak Bordeaux barriques with a medium toast a in 2000 litre wooden vats.
Bottling: February 2019 with no prior fining or stabilisation process.

tasting notes
A red wine with a deep, black-cherry colour, elegant, intense aromas of ripe red berried fruit and a lot of spicy nuances coming through. On the palata you inmediately notice its fine balance and aromatic persistence, making it a long wine with a lot of flavours, long in the month with a deep, pleasent finish. It reveals sensory features which refelct very well its microclimate in the most northerly zone of La Rioja an are faithful to its roots.

Production 2016:
7.801 bottles of 0,75 litres.
351 bottles of 1,5 litres.