Protos performs the harvest in Rueda apellation, implementing techniques with one goal:
The quest for quality
BODEGAS PROTOS is developing the vintage in Rueda appellation :100% Verdejo grapes, selected mainly from old vines.
A variety with mechanized harvesting grapes at night to be at low temperature avoiding any oxidation of the same.
In its commitment to quality, PROTOS technicians are monitoring and comprehensive analytical control of the process taking care of every detail. In this sense, as a differentiator of many wineries, PROTOS has a person dedicated only to add dry ice in order to create an inert atmosphere and prevent the oxygen oxidizes the grape. Even so, he also added ascorbic acid (vitamin C) that functions as an antioxidant.
Harvested the grapes, they are brought to the warehouse and marinated for four hours in cold (10-12 degrees) with the skins to extract all aromatic precursors . Then pressed to extract the juice grape separating by age and depending on whether rainfed or irrigated before taking deposits. Once there, they take a static racking at 10 ° C for cleaning all the impurities from wine. The clean must be fermented at 13 ° C resulting wine, which begins at that time to mature by aging on lees until December. A few months later, wine lovers can taste the exceptional PROTOS Verdejo
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