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The grandeur of this wine comes from, among many other features, the fact that the vines are over 60 years old. The life of this superb wine is marked by its aging of 24 months in oak barrel and at least 36 months in bottle.

Look at: Its intense cherry colour won't leave you indifferent.

Sniff: Served at 18 ºC, your senses become captured by a bouquet that changes minute by minute.

Its taste: Round and velvety in the mouth, it has the mildness characteristic of its category. Its aftertaste is elegant, leaving you with a memory that won't be easy to forget.

Analysis:     Degrees: 13.5 º
Total acidity: 5 g/ l in tartaric
Volatile Acidity: 0.65 g/l in acetic
pH: 3.65
Serving temperature: 17-18 ºC
Food pairing
Meat: meatballs in sauce, stuffed veal roll, sirloin steak brochettes, roast kid, lamb stew, veal cheeks, pork chops à la Milanese, coal-roasted lamb and veal chops, roast lamb and suckling pig, roast ham ribs, rib eye steak, stewed veal, stewed ox with vegetables, liver with onions, roast suckling lamb, stewed tongue, stewed pig's trotters, braised veal sweetbreads, stewed knuckle, coal-roasted pork snout, oxtail, veal ragout, kidneys with Sherry, roast sirloin steak....

Game: Quail (braised or in sauce), rabbit (stewed or with alioli garlic mayonnaise), stewed deer, pheasant with grapes, stewed wild bore, stuffed pigeon, partridge with chocolate, young pigeons with walnuts and roast venison.

Cereal and pasta: Tagliatelle Bolognaise.

Cold cuts: Cecina (salted, air-dried meat), cured Serrano ham and marinated pork loin.

Eggs: Fried eggs with fries.

Legumes: Beans with partridge and pinto beans with rice.

Fish: Anchovy bites with tomato.

Cheese: Combines very well with cured cheese: Manchego, Roncal, Zamorano...

Soups: Castilian garlic-bread soup.
Meat: meatballs in sauce, stuffed veal roll, sirloin steak brochettes, roast kid, lamb stew, veal cheeks, pork chops à la Milanese, coal-roasted lamb and veal chops, roast lamb and suckling pig, roast ham ribs, rib eye steak, stewed veal, stewed ox with vegetables, liver with onions, roast suckling lamb, stewed tongue, stewed pig's trotters, braised veal sweetbreads, stewed knuckle, coal-roasted pork snout, oxtail, veal ragout, kidneys with Sherry, roast sirloin steak....

Game: Quail (braised or in sauce), rabbit (stewed or with alioli garlic mayonnaise), stewed deer, pheasant with grapes, stewed wild bore, stuffed pigeon, partridge with chocolate, young pigeons with walnuts and roast venison.

Cereal and pasta: Tagliatelle Bolognaise.

Cold cuts: Cecina (salted, air-dried meat), cured Serrano ham and marinated pork loin.

Eggs: Fried eggs with fries.

Legumes: Beans with partridge and pinto beans with rice.

Fish: Anchovy bites with tomato.

Cheese: Combines very well with cured cheese: Manchego, Roncal, Zamorano...

Soups: Castilian garlic-bread soup.
© 2008 Bodegas Protos | C/Bodegas Protos, 24-28. E-47300 Peñafiel (Valladolid, Spain)

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