Cámbrico
RUFETE
2009
From the “Valleoscuro” and “El Pocito” vineyards, two vineyards with 80 to 110 year old vines.
El Pocito has a granitic soil with a lot of quartz and in Valleoscuro the vines are rooted directly on the slate bedrock.
Altitude above sea level between 750 and 900 metres.
Vineyard on steeply sloping terraces and narrow planting frame, 1.4×1.4 m.
Type of grape
Rufete
Production
1454 bottles
Alcohol
14,5 % vol
Original wine, ruby red with violet tones, aromas of red fruits and flowers. On the palate it is very complex and harmonious, intense, with liquorice, raspberry, blackberry and well-integrated wood notes. Very long-lasting after it has passed through the mouth.
- Very low yields due to the age of the vineyard: 500 g per vine.
- Harvest in 10 kg boxes with selection of clusters in the vineyard.
- Destemming and grape by grape selection on a sorting table.
- Vatting in stainless steel tanks with gravity fermentation.
- Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts.
- Daily pumping over and punching down by gravity.
- Malolactic fermentation in new 300-litre French oak barrels.
- Aged in 500 and 300 litre French oak barrels for 26 months.
