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70% Grenache
30% Carignan
Very dark, with blueish-violet shades and high viscosity; An enormous flavour concentration, based on very ripe seductive dark fruits like roasted aromas of plums, cassis, and dark cherries combined with currant, toasty, coffee, mokka aromas. It shows a perfect harmony of alcohol and lively acidity full-bodied, ripe and rich tannins and a lovely sweet mouthfeel. The secret of this wine is its perfect sugar balance.
It never feels sticky sweet or tiring!
The relatively low sugar level (compared to other Sweet Reds like Banyuls or Port) allows this wine to pair with main courses like roasted beef, game, roasted duck, stews, steak, oxtail, or smoked fois gras. Also pairs well with any kind of bitter flavours like coffee, nuts, bitter chocolate, smoky, toasty aromas…and fresh and mature cheeses…and simply by itself…or as a good Port with a cigar.
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On the 10-15th day of fermentation (at a moment the fermented must contains around 12% Alc.) fermentation is stopped with the addition of high percentage (96%) rectified grape alcohol retaining a natural sweetness of 70-80 g/l, and fortified up to the 16,5%Alc.
Both varieties are vinified together in stainless steel tanks
Temperature controlled fermentation (27-29ºC; indigenous yeast)
Maceration: 24 days
Not cold stabilized, light filtration
No fining
15 months in new French oak barrels
Small plots of old Grenache and Carignan bush vines (40-85 years old)
Terroir: clay, granite; very mineral; two plots of slate
Slopes and terraces
Altitude: 200-550m
Late harvest: mid/end of October
By hand in 20kg boxes, and later hand sorted
Yield: 250 to 1000g per vine
20hl/ha (Grenache); 25hl/ha (Cariñena)
Alcohol: 16.5%
Sugar: 70g/L
Tartaric acid: 4 g/l
6000 bottles (50cl.)
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