Showing posts with label Valencia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valencia. Show all posts
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Bobal Wines (I): Pasion de Bobal 2010
Pasion de Bobal 2010
Wine typeAged red wine
Grape Varieties
100% Bobal
Elaboration
This wine comes from our vineyards over 60 years that starts a clear way the potential quality and equilibrium necessary for the production of a wine with character. Harvest in boxes in late October with a choice of grapes in the winery entrance. Long and peculiar elaboration with phases of cold macerating pre-fermentation and short fermentation at low temperatures. Following this stage the wine malolactic fermentation takes in new barrel 100% French oak new aging it for 6 months.
Tasting Notes
Wine temperature was approximately 16 ° C. Glass Tempranillo type.
Color and nuance: Colour cherry red high layer and violet edges.
Nose: Good nose with red and black fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants very well taken by an accompaniment to creamy and light barrel toast, a spiced and some licorice.
Flavor of the wine: on the palate very yummy, fruity, round tannins, good acidity and light touches of vanilla, smoke and roasted ..
Overall impression: very fresh wine, balanced, with all the characteristics of a wine Bobal, but with adequate soft tannin to accompany meals with high protein content.
Presentation : Bottle of 75 cl. burgundy type, artistic label.
Wine temperature was approximately 16 ° C. Glass Tempranillo type.
Color and nuance: Colour cherry red high layer and violet edges.
Nose: Good nose with red and black fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants very well taken by an accompaniment to creamy and light barrel toast, a spiced and some licorice.
Flavor of the wine: on the palate very yummy, fruity, round tannins, good acidity and light touches of vanilla, smoke and roasted ..
Overall impression: very fresh wine, balanced, with all the characteristics of a wine Bobal, but with adequate soft tannin to accompany meals with high protein content.
Presentation : Bottle of 75 cl. burgundy type, artistic label.
About the Cellar:
Bodega Sierra Norte
Polígono Industrial El Romeral
C/Del Transporte C2
C.P. 46340 Requena – Valencia (SPAIN)
Tel: +34 96 2323099
Fax: +34 96 2323048
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Utiel-Requena wineries (II): Aranleon - Organic Wines
The winery ARANLEÓN was built in 1927 in the small village of Los Marcos,
100 km West from the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Valencia. The
elaboration of the wines is still being done in its majority in the old
tile fermentation vats which have now been recovered with epoxy resin.
We are using as well stainless steel vats of 4000 litres capacity and barrels of 400 litres for selected fermentations. In 2006 were finalised the enlargement construction works of the new winery to which we access through our particular “time tunnel” digged in an old vat.
There, in the new winery, we have located our barrels made with Hungarian and French oak as well as the bottling line, our warehouse and the social area.At this stage, our winery could be defined as a “gravity flow winery” where the flow of grapes/wines take place gently by gravity from 0 m at the entrance of the grapes to level minus 9 meters where the barrels and the bottling line are hosted and from which the wine is shipped.
In the new underground winery, the temperature and the humidity are constant throughout the year which helps preserve the wines.
ARANLEÓN owns 120 Has. of organic vineyards split in four different
Fincas: Montesanco in the Fontanars Valley, Casa de las Vides in Utiel,
El Churro y Los Rincones in La Portera. Our vineyards are grouped in planted at 750-770 meters of altitude on hilly slopes. Out
of the 120 Has, 90 Has are old bush vines of our 40 years old in a non
irrigated sandy and poor soil the local grape varieties of Bobal,
Monastrell, Tempranillo and Macabeo.
The remaining vineyards amounting 30 Has were planted in trellis in 1998 with drip irrigation on a light white clay and sandy soil, the international varieties; Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Marselan, Marsanne and Sauvignon Blanc.
Our viticulture is based on the constant work on each vine to achieve the right yields based on lose grapes, small and well aerated berries which increase the potential of the fruit. When approaching the vineyard we consider it as a whole and think of it as system which is alive and is in constant evolution following soil, climate and human factors.
The remaining vineyards amounting 30 Has were planted in trellis in 1998 with drip irrigation on a light white clay and sandy soil, the international varieties; Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Marselan, Marsanne and Sauvignon Blanc.
Our viticulture is based on the constant work on each vine to achieve the right yields based on lose grapes, small and well aerated berries which increase the potential of the fruit. When approaching the vineyard we consider it as a whole and think of it as system which is alive and is in constant evolution following soil, climate and human factors.
The sensitivity of ARANLEÓN is clearly
organic and from the beginning we have eliminated the use of herbicides
and pesticides and we have rationalised the irrigation. Starting from the vintage 2007 our vineyards have been certified organic.
The three Aranleon signature wines are from the D.O. Utiel-Requena.
Bodega Aranleon
Ctra. De Caudete s/n,
46310 Los Marcos (Valencia)
Tel: +34 96 3631640 ;
Email: vinos@aranleon.com
Web site: www.Aranleon.com
Ctra. De Caudete s/n,
46310 Los Marcos (Valencia)
Tel: +34 96 3631640 ;
Email: vinos@aranleon.com
Web site: www.Aranleon.com
Friday, October 21, 2011
Wines from Almeria go to Valencia
On Tuesday, day 18 of the present and facing one of the largest seating capacity of the last exercises on the Club de enófilos of Valencia, La Bodega de Alboloduy of Almeria, within the appelation of Ribera del Andarax, presented their wines in Valencia.
Following the presentation of the winery and its surroundings by its owner, D. Francisco Calvache , we went to taste varieties almost, almost extinct today and southeastern native Spanish as the Jaén Blanca. In this variety we tasted the 2010 vintage and the 2011 premiere, still bottled but not especially different.
Also tasted the wine premiere rosé, flower harvest of a grape wine syrah, then surprised us in the working aged 2005 and 2007 with 12 and 18 months aging in oak barrels. A well structured syrah, without edges still very much alive, ripe red fruit, oral explosion and the 2005 vintage smoothness of edges in 2007, still trading, but soon we will have this vintage on the market, Cristina Calvache Collection is his name.
The Collection Cristina Calvache Cabernet Sauvignon 2007, also came from 12 months in barrel, had to wait a few minutes in the glass to show its full potential, a robust wine, powerful aromas of ripe black fruit, spices, cocoa coverage ... promising wine, not for tasting, accompanied by a strong best roast or stew meat, game and sumptuous dishes and clean your tanning needs fats and proteins that remain in our mouth when we eat foods such as those mentioned above.
Finally a wonderful tasting I hope we bring supporters to the cause of different wines or author, always looking to find suggestive emotions and feelings that lead out of the boring and routine.
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