Finca La Estacada 6 months inside the cask

Type: Red wine

Winery: Finca La Estacada

V.T.: Tierra de Castilla

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo

Features

FINCA LA ESTACADA has 278 hectares of vines that are all grown close to the winery, with the farthest at a distance of 7-10 Km. Of these 278 hectares, 106 of which are of Tempranillo grapes, of an average of 25 years, 59 of Cabernet, 32 of Syrah, and 8 of Merlot. Also, in recent years the vineyard has been extended with new varieties such as Cabernet Franc, Cariñena, Malbec and Petit Verdot.

The use of varieties sucha as Tempranillo, the most prestigious in Spain, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, renowned the world over, and the newcomer Syrah, star of the Rhône and Australia, is not just a fashionable choice. FINCA LA ESTACADA has gradually abandoned the traditional image of head-pruned vines that has characterised the wines from Castile-La Mancha, turning instead to the geometry of the trellis system with a drip irrigation method that ensures a balanced water supply. This noticeably improves the quality of the grape, as it increases the amount of sunlight the vines receive and the distribution of production. It also improves the ripening process by producing a larger leaf surface, and in the final stage makes it possible to mechanise many of the processes required to tend to the vines. The soils are clayey with a limestone substrate, poor but woth sufficient mineral resources.

Ripening takes place without any problems due to the long hours of sunlight to which vines in Castile-La Mancha are exposed, but with the peculiarity of being situated in the highest part of the region. This allows for a slightly longer ripening process than in the rest of La Mancha, preserving certain acidity levels and fruit notes that would otherwise be lost with a higher average temperature.

The average density of the vineyard is between 2000-2500 plants per hectare, depending on the type of grape and their location. As a result we obtain a production per hectare of between 5000 and 7000 Kg of small grapes.

6 months inside American oak cask and 2 months bottled.

Alc./vol.: 13,5%

Serving temperature: 12-14ºC

Tasting

View: Deep cherry colour with a purplish edge, proof of its strength of youthfulness.

Nose: Powerfully aromatic that exemplifies black berries and the bramble patch touches of the land that add complexity and certain notes of fruit.

Mouth: Meaty in the mouth, with sweet tannins, as well as certain warm notes and a powerful ripe fruit finish.

Premius 2010

Type: Red wine

Winery: Yvon Mau

D.O.: Bordeaux

Country: France

Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot

Features
PREMIUS is the prestige cuvée of Yvon Mau, makers of great Bordeaux wines since 1897. PREMIUS benefits from the lavish care and attention of our in-house oenologists. Over the last 10 years, this uncompromising approach has been rewarded by some 50 medals in the main French and international competitions.

Alc./vol.: 13%

Serving temperature: 16-18 ºC

Awards (another vintages)

- Premius 2006: Bronze Medal - Concours des Grands Vins de France, Macon 2008. Bronze Medal - Concours des Vins d'Aquitaine 2008.

- Premius 2005: Silver Medal - International Wine Challenge 2006.  Gold Medal - Vinalies Internationales 2007. Gold Medal - Brussels Concours Mondial 2007. Silver Medal - Mundus Vini 2005. Bronze Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards 2007.

- Premius 2004: Gold Medal - 4 stars, Premium Select Wine Challenge 2006.

- Premius 2003: Bordeaux Red Vinalies Nationales Prize 2006.

Tasting

View: A lovely crimson colour.

Nose: Red fruit bouquet with vanilla and slight menthol hints.

Mouth: The impression on the palate is well balanced, with delicate fruit flavours.

Cermeño 2010

Type: Red wine
Winery: Bodegas Covitoro
D.O.: Toro
Country: Spain
Variety: Tinta from Toro

Features

Selecting the best grapes around 30 years old, manual harvest just in the optimum moment of ripeness.

Alc./vol.: 14,5%

Service temperature: 15-17 ºC

Tasting

View: Intense red cherry colour.

Nose: Powerful aromas from red fruits, strawberry, cherry and black fruits, plums and blackberries.

Mouth: Fresh, broad, meaty and persistent.

Orange Phoenix Crianza 2002

Type: Red wine
Winery: Bodegas Entrecepas 
D.O.: Rioja
Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo (70%), mazuelo (13%), garnacha (13%), graciano (4%)

Features
Aged in French and American oak casks for 12 months.
Alc./vol.: 13,5%
Serving temperature: 16 ºC

Tasting

View: Intense red cherry colour with saffron hues.

Nose: Velvety jams fused with toasty notes, light reminiscence of coffee.

Mouth: Silky with certain final acidity that adds freshness. Long finish.

Valvinoso

Type: Rosé wine

Winery: Bodegas y viñedos Alfredo Santamaría

D.O.: Cigales

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo, verdejo and albillo

Features

Made of a mixture of grapes variety from own vineyards, manually selected and picked. It is elaborated by cold maceration and clearing, after which a fermentation takes place at a controlled temperature of 15ºC. Racking and fining process make the wine limpid and stable. The vinification finishes when wine is stabilised at low temperature then it is ready for bottling.

Alc./vol.: 13%

Serving temperature: 8 ºC

Tasting
View: Very clear and transparent with pink tones.

Nose: Red licorice and strawberry yogurt aromas harmoniously combined with intense fresh red fruit hints.

Mouth: Vivacious, high sharpness and fruity in the month with a long finish. Greasy and with good structure.

Alfredo Santamaría 2007 Crianza

Type: Red wine

Winery: Bodegas y viñedos Alfredo Santamaría

D.O.: Cigales

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo

Features

After grapes are harvested by hand from 65 years old vineyards, a traditional maceration with their skins takes place during 15 to 20 days, depending on the polyphenols richness of the harvest. Alcoholic fermentation at a controlled temperature, always below 30ºC, followed by a malolactic fermentation at 28ºC. A racking and a fining process that make the wine limpid and stable. Finally, the wine is settled at 5ºC aprox. after which it is ready for aging. The aging period consists on at least 13 months in American oak barrel and 12 months in bottle, always in the best conditions of temperature and moisture. Bottling takes place without any aggressive process, for this reason it may contain sediments, being decanting recommended.

Alc./vol.: 13,5%

Serving temperature: 16 ºC

Tasting
View: Deep red layer of colour and purple edge. Thick tear. 

Nose: High aromatic intensity which contains hints of fruits, spices and wood.

Mouth: In the mouth is meaty and with firm tannins which leave a long lasting fruit flavour.

Fontal Roble 2010

Type: Red wine

Winery: Bodegas Fontana

D.O.: La Mancha

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo

Features

Winery Fontana is the result of a family life dedicated to the making of quality wines and own harvest. Best vineyards of the region were carefully selected for years with an only aim: to achieve the best harvests for the wines.

For it is necessary a sandy loam soli, a rainy spring and cool summer. The mild summer temperatures allowed a long ripening period, producing fresh grapes with grapes aromatic potential.

6 months inside the oak cask.

Alc./vol.: 14%

Serving temperature: 12-14 ºC

Tasting
View: Clean, brilliant and deep red-violet colour.

Nose: Intense touches of red fruits with toasted and vanilla aromas.

Mouth: In mouth the taste is round, broad and powerful, with sweet and ripe tannins. Medium body.

Amant Roble 2010

Type: Red wine

Winery: Bodegas Toresanas

D.O.: Toro
Country: Spain
Variety: Tinta de Toro

Features

Selected vineyards and then the grapes. Pampered and painstaking wine-growing. Aging for 6 months inside casks of French and American oak.

Alc./vol.: 14,5 %

Serving temperature: 12-16 ºC

Tasting

View: Red cherry colour. Medium-high layer. Clean and great brightness.

Nose: Aromas of red fruits and spices, with licorice notes.

Mouth: Structured, balanced, meaty, fresh and with marked fruit notes.

Trascasas Reserva

Type: Red wine. Reserva

Winery: Bodegas y viñedos Alfredo Santamaría

Country: Spain

D.O.: Cigales

Variety: Tempranillo

Features

Trascasas is vinificated only when vintage is exceptionally good. After grapes are harvested by hand, a traditional maceration with their skins takes place during 20 days, depending on the polyphenols richness of the harvest. Alcoholic fermentation at a controlled temperature, always below 30ºC, followed by a malolactic fermentation at 22ºC. A racking and a fining process that make the wine limpid and stable. Finally, the wine is settled at 5ºC aprox. after which it is ready for aging. The aging period consists on at least 18 months in European oak barrel, most of them French, and 18 months in bottle, always in the best conditions of temperature and moisture. Bottling takes place without any aggressive process, for this reason it may contain sediments, being decanting recommended.

Alc./vol.: 14%

Serving temperature: 16 ºC

Tasting

View: Deep red layer of colour and purple edge. Bright and clean. Thick tear.

Nose: High aromatic intensity which contains hints of red fruits, tobacco, spices and wood.

Mouth: In the mouth is meaty and with firm tannins which leave a long lasting fruit flavour. Well-structured.

Viña Extrísima 2010

Type: Red wine

Winery: Masía Bach
D.O.: Catalunya
Country: Spain
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Tempranillo

Features

Masía Bach was founded at the beginning of the last century by the brothers and textile manufacturers Pere and Ramón Bach. They wanted to combine the best cotton making tradition with winemaking, and gave the name of their prime cotton "Extrísimo" to the premium vineyards that produce Masía Bach wines.

Alc./vol.: 13,5%

Serving temperature: 14-18 ºC

Tasting
View: Deep red cherry colour with ruby hints.

Nose: A fruity aroma reminiscent of plum and red fruits. Underlying woody notes of oak and tobacco. Dominant varietal notes of Cabernet Sauvignon.

Mouth: Good balance. Supple on the palate with slight astringency. What stands out is the personality of Cabernet.

Sierra Cantabria Reserva 2006

Type: Red wine

Winery: Sierra Cantabria
D.O.: Rioja
Country: Spain
Variety: Tempranillo

Features

Own estates in San Vicente de la Sonsierra. Handmade harvest with a bunch selection in optimum conditions of ripening and health. Traditional, 100% destemmed. Temperature-controlled fermentation between 28 and 30º C with selected yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Extended post-fermentative maceration on the skins for 14 days, with two pump-overs daily in the beginning with a light pump-over daily at the end. During the ripening, overpumpings' frecuency is decreased according to the process advances, in order to prevent the removal of vegetables and bitter characters. It remains inside casks of French (50%) and American (50%) oak, 225 l. capacity, for 18 months. Racked every 4 months. Bottle: Without filter bottled in January 2009.

Alc./vol.: 14%

Service temperature: 16-18 ºC

Tasting
View: Bright red-ruby tile and good layer.

Nose: Intense, complex and warm, with elegant aging bouquet and ample range of sensations well joined perceiving fresh and ripe fruits notes combined with spicy, vanilla and toasted touches.

Mouth: Velvety, complex and full, developing powerfully well ripe red fruits notes. Good structure and tanin balance providing with a powerful and elegant structure. In post-taste notes of high roast, vanilla and slighty balsamic touches are appreciated powerfully standing out red fruits sensations. Large and persistent ending.

Vega Moragona Crianza 2008

Type: Red wine

Winery: Vega Moragona

D.O.: Ribera del Júcar

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo (80%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (20%)

Features

From the selection of the best wines of its underground wine-cellars, it is created the perfect assemblage that defines this wine. A balanced and deep wine, very aromatic, result of the elaboration and aging of grapes well matured of Tempranillo variety from vineyards of rolled stones from Casas de Haro.

89 points in Robert Parker's Selection.

Alc./vol.: 14,5%

Service temperature: 16 ºC

Tasting

View: Ruby-red colour.

Nose: Aromas of ripe fruit, toast and spices.

Mouth: Deep, powerful, well-traveled and highly persistent taste.

Isla de San Pedro Crianza 2008

Type: Red wine
Winery: Bodegas y viñedos Pedro García
D.O.: Vinos de Madrid
Country: Spain
Variety: Syrah and Tempranillo

Features

This winery has a familiar character and is situated in the center of Colmenar de Oreja, which bets for the ecological wine. It has 25 own hectares, where there are Tempranillo, some Syrah and Merlot. Other 25 Ha. are associated with Cabernet Sauvignon. It also counts with some Malvar, Macabeo, Airen, Verdejo and Muscatel.

Awards: Viña de Madrid de Oro 2011.

Alc./vol.: 13,8%

Serving temperature: 16 ºC

Tasting

View: Red cherry colour, clean and bright.

Nose: Plain aromas of fruit as pomegranate as its peel.

Mouth: Fresh and light, with good palate, large and pleasant in aftertaste.

Vega de Yuco 2010

Type: Red wine
Winery: Vega de Yuco
D.O.: Lanzarote
Country: Spain
Variety: Black listan and Negramoll

Features

The handmade harvest is made in middle August. The grape selection is made on a vibrant table. Previous criomaceration to the stripping and squeezing. The grape is putting in casks and later a prefermentative maceration and fermentation under controlled temperature in the presence of skins and pips are made, with various delestages and daily overpumpings. After malolactic fermentation, it is lightened, stabilized, filtered and bottled.

Alc./vol.: 13%

Service temperature: 15 ºC

Tasting

View: Ruby colour, clean and bright.

Nose: Red and black fruits, intense aromas, especially blackberries.

Mouth: Fresh, good palate, large and pleasant in aftertaste.

200 Monges Reserva 2004

Type: Red wine
Winery: Vinícola Real
Country: Spain
D.O.: Rioja

Variety: Tempranillo (85%), Graciano (10%) and Mazuela (5%)

Features

This wine is a result by the selection of three varieties of grape from a vineyard does not exceed 10 ha. Age average is over 30 years.

It ferments inside Allier wooden casks for 11 days in a temperature between 24º and 28ºC, with the presence of skins for 25 days more, then noble tannins are obtained which give rise to a long-lived resistence of colour for all wines range.

This wine has been moved up three times a day and clarified by periodic decantings. It is aged for 20 months at least inside a new cask made with French, from different origins, and American oak; it rests a time into a tank until its later bottling where stays, depending on different years, 16 months at least in wine racks before marketing.

It is recommended to uncork and decant 30 or 45 minutes before serving to appreciate its total aromatic potential because it is a reserve wine. It has been botlled with any kind of filtration.

It is the symbol of the winery.

Awards:

Zarzillo de Oro (Gold) – 2009 León (Spain), Decanter World Wine Awards Bronze Medal – 2009 UK, Concours Mondial Bruxelles Silver Medal – 2009 Bruxelles (Belgium).

Alc/.vol.: 13,5%

Service temperature: 16-18 ºC

Tasting

View: Intense and deep ruby red colour.

Nose: Clean and good intensity, with ripe red fruit aromas, tobacco, cedar and truffle.

Mouth: Full-bodied, noble tannins and very balanced. Tasty and broad, with liquorice notes. Large, silky and elegant aftertaste.

Palacio de Bornos La Caprichosa 2010

Type: White wine

Winery: Palacio de Bornos

D.O.: Rueda

Country: Spain
Variety: Verdejo

Features

La Caprichosa is elaborated exclusively with Verdejo grape from old vineyards, sowed in Gobelet system on gravelly soils, with low fertility. Harvest is made by hand, with a first selection of grapes in the own vineyard and then another one during its entry into the winery.

After grape stalking, a long after-fermentative maceration is carried on under low temperature (10ºC), bleeding after the bud must, which will be the only one used for this wine. The slow fermentation is made into stainless steel tanks, again under low temperature (14ºC), to keep the aromatic intensity. When the fermentation is over, the wine stays for three months on its lees, which are stirred periodically to achieve a major character and greasiness.

In its making the aromatic varietal elegance is preserved, as well as its structure and freshness, while the work with thin lees has stimulated the power in nose and the roundness in mouth. The result is an intensive and serious white wine, caressing and solid, full-bodied, expressive in flavours and very suggestive as a whole.

Awards: Silver medal, World Contest of Bruxelles, 2012

Vol./alc.: 13,5%

Tasting

View: Bright yellow-pale color, with greenish twinkles.

Nose: Intensive and complex aroma, with notes of ripe white fruits and mineral notes.

Mouth: Fresh and with volume, frank, smooth and persistent, with a fine bitterness typical of the variety.

Rolling Chardonnay 2009

Type: White wine
Winery: Cumulus Wines
Country: Australia
Variety: Chardonnay

Features

It comes from a relatively young area within the Australian outlook, Central Ranges. It is elaborated by Cumulus Wines, a winery owned the Portuguese family Berardo, which it is famous for a constant technologic innovation and its high precision in all elaboration stages.

Fruit is harvested during early cold hours. When they come at the winery, grapes are pressed softly. Grape juice is paled to leave a little quantity of solids and the fermentation starts into 15-18 degrees. After fermenting, wine is shoaked on yeast lees for some months  to promote the resulting yeast autolysis, which give the creamy and smooth taste of wine. Only a little portion of the mixture is fermenting and aging with French oak.

Tasting

View: Beautiful yellow colour with bright lemon glitter, very bright.

Nose: Remarkable intensity. Fresh stone fruits aroma (white peach and apricot), lemon, melon and tropical fruits (lichee and passion fruit), with superposition of creamy notes and yeast taste typical from the fresh Chardonnay climate.

Mouth: The crunchy citricus skeleton accepts ripe melon tastes on palate. The palate sensation with texture, smooth and oak suggestion adds weight and lenght on the palate. Large, some greasy and a very good integrated, heavy sharpness which confers freshness. It finishes with a large and pleasant fruit finish, leaving spicy and citricus peel memories.

Finca Constancia

Type: Red wine
Winery: Finca Constancia
Apellation: V.T. Tierra de Castilla
Country: Spain

Variety: Petit Verdot, Graciano, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Tempranillo

Features

Near 200 hectares of vineyard surround Finca Constancia where traditional Spanish varieties are cultivated and other new international ones as Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Garnacha and Graciano in red ones, and Verdejo, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay in white ones.

It has been aged for 6 months inside French and American oak casks.

Alc./vol.: 14,5%.
Serving temperature: 16º-18ºC

Tasting

View: Intense red-cherry colour. Clean and bright. Medium-high depth.

Nose: Varietal complex aromas of ripe red fruit, redcurrant and raspberry, supported by fine spicies and liquorice. Balsamics make their way, along rosemary, rockrose and pepper notes.

Mouth: On palate it is silky, easy, without becoming complex, it has a backbone. Fresh, leaving an aftertaste of red fruits' yogurt. Good weft and lenght.

Viña Bayona Crianza 2008

Type: Red wine
Winery: Viña Bayona
D.O.: Vinos from Madrid
Country: Spain
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Tempranillo

Features

The winery was founded in 1940. It has 7 Has. in the locality of Titulcia, which allows to irrigate its grounds by Tajuña river, centenary grounds in the cultivation of stocks on limy soil. It has an ageging winery where the French and American oak Bordeaux casks settle; crianzas age into them, which can come to be until 21 or 28 days in contact with the skins (soaking), ir order to extricate the most of aromas, pigments and tanins, which keep the colour structure through the aging. Crianzas are bottled into the 225 l. American and French oak Bordeaux casks, where remain for 8 to 10 months; once this stage finishes they go to the bottling where the aging goes on inside the bottle remaining a minimum of 12 months, where they gain bouquet.

Alc./vol.: 14,5%

Service temperature: 16-18 ºC

Tasting

View: Intense red-cherry colour and covered with violet glitters.

Nose: Very expressive, it denotes the great aromatic charge owned the varietals which make up it, stressing violet floral and blackberry and raspberry fruity aromas.

Mouth: It is pleasant and warm on the palate, with a great persistence and a smooth harmony between tannins and sharpness, with a clean and aromatic finish, where the red fruits jam and vanilla spicy notes are stressed.