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Wine Description
The Story
In 1995 we discovered that some vines produced grapes whose flavor was very different to the one of the vines around them. They produced a sensation of fullness, of volume, with notes that were more alike to a wine than to a grape. Two years later, we made our first CIRSION, which we didn’t commercialized, and we tested that with a short aging, the wine reached a level of incredible silkiness and a fruit complexity out of the ordinary. Each vintage we walk through the vineyards looking for this curious natural peculiarity, and that’s how, one in a thousand, the CIRSION grapes are picked.
Wine Information
TECHNICAL DATA
Grape variety:
100% Tempranillo.
Vineyard:
Selected bunches from different plots. Applied methods from own research and development on polymerisation of tannins and anthocyanins.
Grape harvest:
From the 28th of September to the 28th of October.
Fermentation:
In French oak vats, with controlled temperature.
Ageing:
In 100% brand new French oak barrels. 8 months in barrels and 4 months in bottles.
Stabilization:
By natural methods, clarification using only egg whites, without filtration.
Alcohol:
14,5% Vol.
HARVEST
The miraculous harvest. Damp winter. 445,3 mm. of precipitations in the vine-growing year. Several storms in August, there was hail on the 2nd and 3rd of August.
Stormy rains and heat in September which caused some outbreaks of botrytis (September, 1 to 10).
From the 11th of September until the end of the harvest was a dry and sunny weather with northerly winds that dried the outbreaks of botrytis. The days were warm and the nights were fresh. The harvest changed radically.