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.