Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria 2017

TASTING NOTES

• Appearance: Cherry red colour, violet edges.
• Nose: Seductive perfume of cherries in liqueur and lush licorice, with a hint of raisins and toasted nuances from the barrel.
• Palate: Magnificent fruit flavors, a melted tannin.

ELABORATION

Varieties: 96.4% Tinto Fino, 3.6% Albillo.
10% of whole bunches are crushed and 90% destemmed are vatted.
Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation in wooden tanks of up to 3000 litres.
Macerations of 12 days on average with a mini pump-over with O2 per day.
Aged for 20 months in bourguignonne barrels (228 l) with 54.5% new (Francois frères) and 45.5% from 2 and 3 wines (Francois Frères, Chassin, Dargaud).
Production: 3,224 bottles, 135 magnums and 8 jeroboams.

CURIOSITIES

Fields with pre-phylloxera vines were discovered by Bertrand Sourdais when he arrived in 1999 in the Lands of Soria.
The climate creates a special microcosm and blends with the characteristics of a clayey, porous soil, with calcareous mixtures and sands of the Douro, the essence of which Bertrand Sourdais knows deeply, thanks to the experience accumulated during his numerous harvests.