Finca El Bosque '17
Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria
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Single-vineyard wine from Finca El Bosque, 1,4 Hcts.
Sandy-franc-clay soil in texture with abundance of gravel and small rounded stones on the surface. Altitude: 500 m. High density plantings on trellis and low yield. Organic fertilization.
Environmental integrated agriculture cultivation.
Year of plantation: 1973.
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- Wine Country
- Spanje
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- Grape varieties wine
- Tempranillo
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- Wine-food combination
- Game poulty, roasted red meats, grilled red meats, large game
About this wine
Description & facts
Single-vineyard wine from Finca El Bosque, 1,4 Hcts.
Sandy-franc-clay soil in texture with abundance of gravel and small rounded stones on the surface. Altitude: 500 m. High density plantings on trellis and low yield. Organic fertilization.
Environmental integrated agriculture cultivation.
Year of plantation: 1973.
- Producer
- Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria
- Country of origin
- Spanje
- Wine Region
- Rioja
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Vintage
- 2017
- Grape varieties wine
- Tempranillo
- % of grape varieties wine
- Tempranillo
- Tasting note
- Intense cherry. Aroma with marked emphasis of tasty notes of oak and black fruit, mineral background. Powerful palate, warm, flavoursome with tannins of oak still marked against those of fruit, hints of great length, mineral back aroma with traces of ripe fruit.
- Wine-food combination
- Game poulty, roasted red meats, grilled red meats, large game
- Vinification
- VINIFICATION: Destemmed by hand with a rigorous selection of every grape. Cold pre-fermentative maceration at 8º C. during 5 days. FERMENTATION: Fermented in French oak barrels at 28ºC with autochthonous yeast selected from our own vineyards. Pissage and punch down twice a day during the first 8 days of fermentation and once a day during the last 5 days of fermentation. MACERATION:On the skins for 21 days. MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION: In new French and Center-European Bordelaise oak barrels. AGING. 18 months in new French (95%) and Center-European (5%) Bordelaise oak barrels.
- Location Vineyard
- AROUND SAN VICENTE DE LA SONSIERRA, RIOJA ALTA.
- Soil
- Surface: 1.4820 Has (3.66 acres). Altitude: 500m. Soils of calcareous clay; abundance of gravel and small rounded stones on surface. Year of plantation: 1973. High density plantings on trellis.Environmental integrated agriculture cultivation, applying a viticulturerespectful with the environment, following the biorhythms of the plant.Organic fertilization every 2 years.
- Closure
- Cork
- Bottle size
- 750 ml
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 C
- Ageing potential
- Drink now untill 2060
- Awards & ratings
- WINE ADVOCATE 95+WINE SPECTATOR 93PROENSA 99
