Predicador 2020

Tasting notes:

• Color cherry with a purple edge, very intense and shiny.
• IN nose contain red and black fruits, fine forest, low mountain souvenirs, spices and mineral points.
• It's in the mouth powerful , fresh and mature With volume p fruity sensations . With a balanced acidity and sweet tannin that contributes structure and persistence .

Development and Aging:

The preacher lends itself to variations 93% Tempranillo , 3% Garnach , 2% Graciano , 2% Mazuela . The grapes come vineyards aged 20 to 35, from 12 different plots. The harvest is done by hand in small boxes weighing 14 kg. Once harvested, the grapes are transported to the plant in a maximum of half an hour to prevent oxidation. Predicador for processing, after thorough stripping fermentation of the must in the shape of a truncated cone and stainless steel, at a temperature of 19-24ºC for 7-10 days of deposits. Finally, after the vinification, the preacher passes one aged 15 months in French oak barrels of 1 wine .

Trivia:

For many Benjamin Romeo Is wine maker. He started as a winemaker who worked for large wineries, as Artadi , and after almost 20 years of starting his personal project z Bodega Contador , has achieved that its wines are in the lists of the most expensive restaurants in the world. In 1995, Benjamin acquires a hundred-year-old cave under the castle San Vicente de la Sonsierra (La Rioja) . In 1996, he develops the first collection of Cueva del Contador and starts buying wine. In the meantime, to increase the capacity of the cave, the garage of his parents' house, Andres Romeo, and Carmen Hilera, who consecrated some of his wines, was conditioned. His international recognition comes through the American critic Robert Parker, who gives 100 points to the 2004 and 2005 collections of wine "Contador", made in a garage. As the highest qualification awarded Rioja wines, until then .