Bodegas Protos. Selecting a wine and how to preserve it
Bodegas Protos. Wines. Gran Reserva.

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Gran Reserva

The impressiveness of this wine is due among many other things to the 60-year-old vines.

The life of this superb wine is marked by the 24 months it spends in oak casks and at least 36 months in the bottle.

Look: its intense cherry colour will not leave you indifferent.

Smell: served at 18º the senses are captivated by a bouquet which varies as the minutes go by.

Taste: velvety and full in the mouth, with the characteristic smoothness of its category. It has an elegant aftertaste which will leave you with an unforgettable memory.

Analysis     Degrees: 13º5
  Total acidity: 5 gr/ l en tartárico.
  Volatile Acidity: 0,65 gr/l en acético.
  pH: 3,65
  Serving temperature: 17-18 °C
Food pairing
• Meat: lamb and grilled veal chops, roast lamb and suckling pig, roast pork cutlets, fillet steak, veal stew, ox stew with vegetables, meatballs in a sauce, sirloin kebabs, roast kid, lamb stew, veal cheek, pork chops milanese, liver and onions, roast suckling lamb, tongue stew, stewed pig's trotters, sautéed veal sweetbreads, shank stew, grilled pig's snout, oxtail, veal ragout, kidneys in sherry, oven-baked sirloin, etc.
• Game: quails sautéed or in a sauce, stewed or garlic rabbit, venison stew, roasted pheasant with grapes, wild boar stew, stuffed pigeon, partridge in chocolate, squab with nuts and oven-baked venison.
• Cereals and pastas: tagliatelle bolognese.
• Cold meats: smoked meat, cured ham and smoked loin of pork.
• Eggs: fried eggs with potatoes.
• Pulses: beans with partridge and pinto beans with rice.
• Fish: anchovy puffs with tomato.
• Cheeses: the wine matches very well with aged cheeses such as manchego, roncal, zamorano, etc.
• Soups: castilian garlic soup.
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