Valtosca 2021

Tasting notes:

• Color: deep cherry, vivid violet edge.
• Nose: toasty aroma, mineral notes of jam, rich in fruit expression, ripe.
• Mouth is powerful, fleshy, ripe tannins, candied black fruit, earthy touches, minerals and complex.

Development and aging

100% syrah from the vineyard Valtosca a maceration is carried out cold for five days in underground wineries, end of alcoholic fermentation in new French oak barrels of 500 liters capacity, where "batonage" is performed until the end of the malolactic fermentation. Then aged in new French oak barrels, the barrel aging period depends on the year, and this period of a minimum of nine months. Unfiltered.

La Finca Valtosca is the transition between the slopes of gravel and the valley. With sandy loam soil covered with rough limestone hence the name Valtosca (valley-crude). It is grown in full syrah variety, trellised with high planting density per hectare, resulting in a mature wine and conce
Aging: 12 months in oak barrels.

Curiosities:

In 1941, it is when Don Jose Sanchez-Cerezo acquires the Casa Castillo property for the exploitation of rosemary bush. On the farm it was nestled a winery built by the French in 1870.
It is in 1985 when the second generation of the family (Nemesio and his son Jose Maria Vicente) start a new project with the restructuring of vineyards and the introduction of new varieties. In 1991 the winery building was renovated respecting the original structure and the first preparation is carried out our first wine market in 1993 as "Casa Castillo Crianza 1991". Today José María Vicente is at the forefront of the wine estate Casa Castillo.