Protos Selección
“Finca el Grajo Viejo”
As a tribute to its consumers, Bodegas Protos has launched its most exclusive wine ever: “Protos Selección Finca El Grajo Viejo” A wine expressing all the unique character of its Terroir and Grown, vinified and aged TO BE SECOND TO NONE
More than ten years of painstaking work were needed to bring about our Protos Selección. Careful study and trialling of the grapes of 18 specially-selected vineyards with separate vinifications was carried out before deciding on the final selection for EL GRAJO VIEJO. 70-year old vines and tiny yields have produced a wine of superb concentration, showing that The greatness of a wine lies in the land and the vines from which it is born.
The growing of these plots was carefully monitored from the winery on a daily basis, with special attention paid to keeping yields low and meticulous sorting, firstly in the vines, followed by a second sorting on a table prior to de-stemming and a third one, berry by berry, to guarantee the wine’s Unique Quality.
Over many years, these very old vines have developed deep roots which have penetrated the upper layers of clay to reach down to the deepest strata of limestone rock, from which the wine gains its minerality and its Inimitable character and personality.
After fermentation in large 500-litre new French oak casks, then long macerations of 3 to 4 weeks, the wine is run off into new French oak barrels supplied by three different coopers, in which the malo-lactic fermentation takes place without delay and the ageing is carried out for 18 months.
The result: 9,327 unique bottles of the 2009 vintage, One of Ribera Del Duero’s most elegant wines, And the pinnacle of Protos’s top-notch range.
Fruit, power, structure, concentration, complexity and great elegance are the characteristics that sum up this expressive, character Ribera wine.
A cherry red colour, with a lovely aromatic palette on the nose and great complexity, revealing almost perfumed scents of ripe fruit, spices, balsamic notes and hints of tobacco and minerals. Rich on the palate, full and powerful but with fine, elegant tannins. Very expressive and vivacious thanks to the lively acidity provided by vines grown in very poor soils with 800 m. altitude.
Long, lingering and a pleasant finish with mineral touches coming to the fore.
The wine has great ageing potential thanks to its structure and the excellent balance between elegant tannins and good acidity.
| Analysis |
Degrees: |
14º0 |
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Total acidity: |
5,4 gr/ l en tartárico. |
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Volatile Acidity: |
0,66 gr/l en acético. |
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pH: |
3,53 |
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Serving temperature: |
16-17 °C |
Food pairing
• Meat: roast pig's trotter, roast lamb, veal escalope, oven-baked suckling lamb, veal tongue or sweetbreads, tripe Madrid-style or with chickpeas, pot roast, carpaccio of ox or veal, grilled veal chops, fried lamb chops.
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Game: quails sautéed or in sauce, garlic rabbit, roast pheasant, hare served with potatoes and rice, venison loin, stewed partridge, squab with nuts, etc.
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Cereals and pastas: rice with partridge, chicken or rabbit, tuna or beef cannelloni, pie, spaghetti bolognese, beef lasagne, macaroni with chorizo.
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Cold meats: butifarra (sausage), wild boar pate, chistorra (spicy sausage), chorizo, foie gras, fuet (catalonian sausage), cured ham, shoulder of pork, black pudding.
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Eggs: fried or as an omelette.
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Pulses: fabada (asturian bean stew), haricot beans with hare, pinto beans with rice, lentils and stews.
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Seafood: squid, stewed river crabs, snails, baby squid, garlic prawns and steamed mussels.
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Fish: tuna with tomato, cod, bonito tuna served with tomato and onions, marmitako (fresh tuna stew), trout and bonito tuna belly.
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Cheeses: the wine matches very well with aged cheeses such as manchego, roncal, zamorano, etc.
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Soups: chickpea soup, garlic soup, castilian garlic soup.
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Vegetables: broccoli with potatoes, courgettes and vegetable stew.
wine, a taste for moderation
