selección

That this wine is made with grapes from very old vines and that the grapes themselves go through the sorting process are the reasons why this wine will delight the most demanding palates.
Its fermentation is controlled so that the temperature varies from 28 to 30 ºC and it is macerated for 21 days with several daily over pumps
It is aged for 18 months in 80% French oak and 20% American oak barrel.

Look at: Its Bigarreau cherry red tones with purple rims.

Sniff: Ripe fruit with smoky tones.

Its taste: It is rich and flavourful in the mouth.

Analysis:     Alcohol degree: 14 º
Total acidity: 5.4 g/ l in tartaric
Volatile Acidity: 0.66 g/l in acetic
pH: 3.53
Serving temperature: 16-17 ºC
Food pairing
Meat: Tripe (Madrid-style or with chick-peas), carne mechada (slow-baked shredded meat), ox or veal carpaccio, coal-roasted veal chops, fried baby lamb chops, roast pork knuckle, roast lamb, veal scallop, roast suckling lamb, veal tongue or sweetbreads.

Game: Quail (braised or in sauce), rabbit in oil & garlic, roast pheasant, hare with potatoes and rice, deer loin, stewed partridge, young pigeon with walnuts...

Cereal and pasta: Rice with partridge, chicken or rabbit, meat or tuna cannelloni, empanada (meat pie), spaghetti a la Bolognaise, meat lasagna, macaroni with chorizo.

Cold cuts: butifarra (Catalonian sausage), wild bore headcheese, chistorra (spicy Basque sausage), chorizo, foie gras, fuet (Catalonian white sausage), cured Serrano ham, lacón (cured pork shoulder), blood sausage.

Eggs: Fried or omelette.

Legumes: Fabada asturiana (stewed beans & meat), white beans with hare, pinto beans with rice, lentils and potajes (different bean stews).

Molluscs and crustaceans: squid, stewed river crayfish, snails, small squid, oil & garlic shrimp and steamed mussels.

Fish: tuna fish with tomato, cod, bonito with tomato or with onions, marmitako (stewed albacore tuna-potato-tomato dish), trout and bonito fillet.

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

Soups: Chick-pea soup, garlic soup, Castilian garlic-bread soup.

Vegetables: artichokes, broccoli with potatoes, courgettes, mixed vegetable stew.
Meat: Tripe (Madrid-style or with chick-peas), carne mechada (slow-baked shredded meat), ox or veal carpaccio, coal-roasted veal chops, fried baby lamb chops, roast pork knuckle, roast lamb, veal scallop, roast suckling lamb, veal tongue or sweetbreads.

Game: Quail (braised or in sauce), rabbit in oil & garlic, roast pheasant, hare with potatoes and rice, deer loin, stewed partridge, young pigeon with walnuts...

Cereal and pasta: Rice with partridge, chicken or rabbit, meat or tuna cannelloni, empanada (meat pie), spaghetti a la Bolognaise, meat lasagna, macaroni with chorizo.

Cold cuts: butifarra (Catalonian sausage), wild bore headcheese, chistorra (spicy Basque sausage), chorizo, foie gras, fuet (Catalonian white sausage), cured Serrano ham, lacón (cured pork shoulder), blood sausage.

Eggs: Fried or omelette.

Legumes: Fabada asturiana (stewed beans & meat), white beans with hare, pinto beans with rice, lentils and potajes (different bean stews).

Molluscs and crustaceans: squid, stewed river crayfish, snails, small squid, oil & garlic shrimp and steamed mussels.

Fish: tuna fish with tomato, cod, bonito with tomato or with onions, marmitako (stewed albacore tuna-potato-tomato dish), trout and bonito fillet.

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

Soups: Chick-pea soup, garlic soup, Castilian garlic-bread soup.

Vegetables: artichokes, broccoli with potatoes, courgettes, mixed vegetable stew.
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