Technical Data Sheet
Winery: Viñedos Sierra Cantabria.
D.O.Ca: Rioja
Year: 2019
Grade: 14.5%
Varietal: 100% Tempranillo.
Variety: 100% Tempranillo
Tasting notes: Sierra Cantabria Colección Privada 2016 is a ripe red wine with elegant aromas of red fruit along with aromatic woods, spices, hints of caramel, bonbon. The palate is tasty, powerful and well structured with hints of wild fruit, violets and licorice notes. Creamy, ample and sweet tannin. Long and persistent.
Harvest: Exhaustive manual harvest in boxes, with manual selection of clusters in optimal ripening and sanitary conditions in the vineyard and in the winery by means of a double selection belt. It took place from October 8 to 11, 2016.
Serving temperature: 16ºC
Making:traditional, with two vinifications: destemming (50%) and whole bunch vinification (50%).12 days of maceration with the skins. Daily pumping over, decreasing the frequency in the last days. Fermentation with indigenous yeast selected from our own vineyards and controlled temperature (23ºC). Malolactic fermentation in barrels. Aging 16 months in new French and American oak barrels. Bottled in June 2018.
Bottled in June 2018
Matching: Red meats with sauce, Roasted white meats, Roasted red meats, White meats with sauce, Stews, Beef, Roast pork, Big game.
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