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Esencia Diviña 2010

Type: White wine

Winery: Adegas Gran Vinum

D.O.: Rias Baixas

Country: Spain

Variety: Albariño

Features

Adegas Gran Vinum belongs to Enrique Piñeiro. In 1998 the Val do Salnes subregion was attached to Rias Baixas D.O. stimulating a renewed focus of the wines' quality. Adegas Gran Vinum reacted adding new plots of wineyards in steep, sandy and southern-orientated slopes, near ocean, which decrease the temperature and widen the ripening providing wines with more spices, fruit varietal caracter and salinity. Wineyards' grounds are rich in the traditional way because they are excavated in sites where there are shells.

Albariño is the local grape and it is known for its ability to ripen in this cold corner of Spain. Besides, it keeps well its nature acidity providing fresh and balanced wines. Adegas Gran Vinum uses different rootstocks in the free drainage slopes in front of more fertile grounds to guarantee the ripening longer.

Alc./vol.: 13,5%

Service temperature: 11 ºC

Tasting

View: Straw-colored yellow with medium intensity.
Nose: Soapy first feeeling although after an airing it lost those notes. Green lemon, tropical fruits and white flowers memories.
Mouth: Slight wine, provided with a good citrus sharpness and a final slight bitter feeling.

Aroa Gorena 2004 Reserva

Type: Red wine

Winery: Aroa Bodegas

D.O.: Navarra

Country: Spain

Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon (70%), Tempranillo (30%)

Features

Aroa's wines are characterized by their vigor and strenght, wines with structure and a broad aromatic diversity, they are vital for their height, energy and longevity. Their casks are made of French and American oak and their age is never older than five years.

Wines grow up in living, balanced and full of energy grounds; so they do not use either chemical products or herbicides, and besides they keep the biodynamic agriculture principles. They enrich and protect the ground with organic matter coming from the crushed wine shoots, as well as composted skins. Herb grow up in their wines, and there are cuts in Spring and early Summer, they are the base of green fertilizers. They prepare treatments based on plants as field horsetail, nettle, sage, which mineralize and strenghten the wine's defenses. Pruning in green, and pulling off too (under the morning sunshine), is an important task to get a right ventilation and sun exposure, achieving an optimum sanitary state.

Wineyard is the natural habitat of yeasts, native and typical of every wine yeasts, which are responsible to convert grape sugar into alcohol in the fermentation process. In ecologic wine-growing, they perform an very important role, as they take part to define aromas and flavours for the wine.

All of wines elaborated by Aroa are controled and certificated by CPAEN-NNPEK (Navarra Ecologic Agricultural Production Council), an public nature organ, attached to Departament of Agriculture of Government of Navarra.

AROA is a Vasque word, which within the agriculture context, means: “the optimum moment, ideal, to work the ground”.

It aged for 18 months in French (80%) and American (20%) oak task and rest of time in bottle.

Awards:

• 90 points Guía Peñin 2011

• Gold Medal Millesime Bio 2010 Montpellier (France)

• Bacchus de Plata VIII. Inter. Contest Bacchus 2010 Madrid

• Barrica Popular 09 V National Contest of Ecologic agriculture wines CATA CIEGA POPULAR 2009 Estella (Navarra)

• Silver Medal +90P La Selecion 2009 Der grosse Preis der besten SpanienWeine in Deutschland, der chweiz und Österreich

• Silver Medal/Silver Decanter 2009 (UK)

• Bronze Star V National Contest of Ecologic agriculture wines CATA CIEGA POPULAR 2009 Estella (Navarra)

• Bronze Medal Millesime Bio 2009 Perpignan (France)

Alc./vol.: 14%

Service temperature: 17ºC

Tasting

View: Black cherry colour.

Nose: Licoured-fruit aromas, salted fish, broom, low-mountain, toastings.

Mouth: Sweet-toothed, tasty, aromatic, pleasant warmth, good balance, ripe tanin, balsamic flow and high-roasted ending.

Finca Constancia Parcela 23 (2010)

Type: Red wine

Winery: Finca Constancia (Gonzalez-Byass Group)

Apellation: V.T. Tierra de Castilla

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo

Feautures

This wine has been elaborated by Gonzalez-Byass from Tempranillo grapes selected from Parcela 23 (23th Plot) in Finca Constancia's vineyards.

It has been aged for 6 months in French and American oak casks.
Awards: International Wine and Spirit Competition Trophy 2010.
Alc./vol.: 14,5 %

Serving temperature: 16-18 ºC

Tasting
View: Intense cherry-red colour. Clean and bright. Medium depth.
Nose: Ripe fruits and vanilla aromas. Slight liquorace tones.
Mouth: Full bodied and intensely flavoured, it has pronounced cherry aromas with juicy blackberry fruit on the palate. Smooth entry.

Altozano White 2010

Type: White wine
Winery: Finca Constancia (Gonzalez Byass Group)
V.T.: Tierra de Castilla
Country: Spain
Variety: Verdejo and Sauvignon Blanc

Features:

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

It is aged for 4 months inside French, Hungarian and American oak barrel.
Alc./vol.: 13%.
Serving temperature: 11,5 ºC

Tasting

View: Pale straw-colored yellow colour with greenish tonalities, transparent although some blurred surface. Bright.
Nose: Medium intensity. Tropical fruit aromas and smooth notes of citrus which create a medium palate.
Mouth: Smooth, fresh and fruity.

Tetas de la Sacristana Selección 2009

Type: Red wine

Winery: Selección de Vinos de Fondón

V.T.: Láujar-Alpujarra

Country: Spain

Variety: Tempranillo, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon

Feautures
Selection of Tempranillo grapes aged for 12 months in oak cask, and Merlot's and Cabernet's which aged for 5 months inside American and French oak casks.

The pairing is recommended with roasts, mushrooms, stewed legumes and cured cheeses.

Awards: Bacchus 2006 Prize, VII International Competition of wines: Silver Bacchus.

Aulincat-Radio Tourism Prize, National Tasting 2009 International Seminar of Tasters: Golden Medal. Bacchus 2010 Prize, IX International Competition of wines: Silver Bacchus. 

Alc./vol.: 13,5%
Service temperature: 15-18 ºC

Tasting
View: Maroon cherry colour, intense, with slightly dull cherry-red trim. Clean, bright, medium-low depth, with dense legs and slightly dyed.

Nose: The Tempranillo percent predominates, it leaves an overmature fruit bouquet, and it can be distinguished between red fruits as strawberries and other blacks' as plums. Its secundary aromas are odd, starting for a white chocolate detail, some caked aroma that remembers cookies; it is also detected an aroma provided possibly for Cabernet's ripening, with a rare essence confusing the nose a little, to finish with an empyreumatic note due to the wood toasting which we will identify as phosphorus.

Mouth: Fine, smooth entry; at the beginning dry, toasted, developing toward a tasty, mature, slightly warm wine but well-balanced in its taste whole, with average structure and body which makes easier its smooth flow through the mouth, with a good extent, very mature tannins; it is a pleasure for those who enjoy with this smooth feeling, fine sharpness, persistent, soothing and with energy at the end of mouth, long and bitterish.