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Wine Description
The Story
Corona was born at the end of the 19th century as a semi-dry white wine. It is only made in exceptional vintages.
The Viura grapes used for this wine come from our own single vineyard, La Salceda. A plot of 2 hectares located in the village of Villalba de Rioja at the foot of the mountains of Gembres in the Sierra de Cantabria. The evening mist is frequent here and remains into the morning hours. These conditions facilitate the formation of...
Wine Information
The late 2016 vintage was harvested on December 20th.The year had 161 days of vegetative cycle, of excellent quality in CVNE vines, characterized by the absence of rainfall from May to October. The year began with a warm, dry winter and a rainy early spring. An August with above average temperatures and no rain delayed the vegetative cycle. September arrived with some rain, giving the vines relief and allowing the grapes to ripen well, result...
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...