The Story
VINIFICATION
The selection of grapes is done on the vineyard and later at the selection table. The stalks are then removed from the grapes without squeezing them. Grapes are maintained in controlled conditions, with long macerations at low temperatures in oak casks with the cap submerged. The must is naturally pumped over using gravity in order to achieve the best extraction of polyphenols. The pressing is carried out using pneumatic presse...
Wine Information
THE HARVEST
The 2010 harvest in Ribera del Duero could be one of the greatest recorded in many years. The year started cold, with plenty of rain in the winter. A cool spring gave way to the hottest summer in the last few years. October started with rain and was followed by cool autumn weather and relatively low temperatures. These favorable factors meant that grapes arrived at the winery in excellent conditions.
Vintage 2010
RIOJA 2010 – Excellent Vintage
The Rioja Control Board has officially rated the 2010 vintage ‘Excellent’. This is the result of a strict rating process involving testing and tasting more than four thousand samples of the 284.29 million litres of wine made in this vintage. This result confirms the high expectations prompted by the high quality of the grapes picked during harvest and subsequent winemaking process, pointing to the possibility ...
