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Wine Description
The Story
It is a wine made from the free-run juice, with a short maceration time and only 50% is used to make the wine. Fermentation takes place in small wooden vats, on a parcel by parcel basis. Due to the small size and low yields of some of these plots, some batches have to be fermented in vats with a capacity of 500 to 1,000 litres. After fermentation at a low temperature, we then work with the fine lees left after the process for at least 4 months...
Wine Information
Flor de Muga is produced on the basis of plot selection of very old garnacha vines (between 70 and 90 years’ old), grown at an altitude of 600-750 metres in two distinctly different terroirs: ferrous clay and chalky clay soils. These recently chosen plots are carefully watched over and when they reach the peak of maturity the grapes are picked by hand into small crates.
It is surprising what a pale pink colour is obtained from a 100% garna...
Vintage 2016
SPAIN 2016 will be remembered for the piles of grapes thrown to the ground in Rioja. Our most renowned wine region, as well as Navarra and most appellations in Castilla y León, registered very high yields in sharp contrast with Mediterranean wine regions where drought led to below-average production levels. The gloomy picture came from Ribeira Sacra in Galicia where severe hail hit the area of Doade in August and destroyed 400,000 kilos of gra...