Showing posts with label white wines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white wines. Show all posts
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Catalonia wines (I): Petit Chardonnay
Petit Chardonnay de Joanne Cox 2011
Wine type
white aged in barrel
Grape Varieties
100% Chardonnay
Elaboration
Manual vintage and selection in the field in boxes of 15 kg with later heat treatment at -2 ° C. Later destemming and soft pressing. Static cleaning of juice during 24 hours and fermentation in French oak barrels of 300 L. Aged for 4 months in the same French oak barrels.
Tasting Notes
Wine temperature was about 11 ° C. Glass for white wine.
Wine temperature was about 11 ° C. Glass for white wine.
Color and nuance: Visually is characterized by its elegant tone. This wine is clean and clear, with a deep golden color and attractive light nuances of orange.
Nose: Elegant and complex aromas dominated by intense aromas of white flowers on the fresh and ripe fruit notes.
Flavour of the wine: Balanced and fresh taste. The acidity of the fruit and spices touch obtaining together harmoniously balanced and smooth on the palate, with a haul of good intensity and a long aftertaste.
Overall impression: a fresh wine with seductress aromatic intensity dominated by notes of white flowers on the nuances fresh fruits and ripe. Balanced and soft on the palate with good intensity and long finish.
Presentation : Bottle of 75 cl. burgundy type, clearly label.
About the cellar:
Celler Ronadelles
Finca la Plana s/n,
43360 Cornudella de Montsant
Tarragona - Spain
+ 34 977821104
info@ronadelles.com
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Heiner Sauer, German wines and also Utiel Requena
Heiner Sauer, German winemaker, created a winery in 1987 the Pfalz, the German Palatinate in the Rhine valley, an area near the border with France. The German tradition of cultivation of white grapes and one of the best areas for growing Riesling and Gewurtztraminer varieties and varieties incorporating 'Burgunder' make this winery produces wines from its 17 ha. following the German tradition of more than 1000 years old.
Harvesting is done by hand with various types of selection, always seeking the highest quality grapes. The winemaking is achieved with modern techniques to extract the maximum exponent in aromas and flavors, but with the traditional view of time and quiet to give the wine to develop gradually.
In Utiel-Requena, Heiner Sauer bought some land in order to produce red wines with Mediterranean character, because in Germany it was very difficult to get acclimatized varieties, its climate and soil types. Bodegas Palmera In particular, the name of the winery on Spanish soil, has 14 ha, south-facing south-west, in the municipality of Utiel, where we can find a fabulous and old strains of almost 50 years Tempranillo, Bobal, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, planted recently.
Here are vinified red wines with character, taking advantage of soil and climatic differences between day and night, at a height close to 700 mts. and less than 100 km from the Mediterranean. Klaus Lauerbach, the winemaker is responsible for controlling the vineyard and the production of these wines, combining these varieties for wine as special as L'Angelet D'or, a Red Guard wine with 20 months in French oak barrels and a grape rigorous selection on process and only when exceptional vintages occur.
L'Angelet, Capricho and Viña Cabriel are the three wines, with special selection, which develops in Spain Bodegas Palmera, remained at 90% of production dedicated for export. For varieties produced in Germany, the white, I have to emphasize his great Rieslling and above all a 'Burgunder' made from Pinot Grey, whose structure in the mouth makes it different from the typical targets of the area.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Visit winery Pago de Tharsys
In my tour of the wineries in the region Utiel-Requena, I must stress that this small winery, located on the outskirts of Requena near the N-III, I had never gone unnoticed in most specialty stores and shops delicacies of the city of Valencia, there was always a major gap in the shelves of its flagship product, Cava Brut Nature Pago de Tharsys, being peculiar to the product label is a twisted ceramic tile with an image of a woman with a big eye and a tousled hair painted in cobalt blue and subjected to the neck of the bottle with a satin ribbon black.
However, it is not fair to qualify for this winery that image, apart from the spectacular wine cellar that has in it in the mouth and was named best sparkling wine from Spain in 2005, but by the variety of products that the winery produces winemaking, product know-how of the family led by Vicente Garcia and Ana Suria, dedicated to this task of making wines and cavas from the mid-twentieth century.
The winery is located in the form of pago, surrounded by vineyards and winemaking complex is formed by the house of the nineteenth century, which has commercial installations, the bottler, the barrel room, a basement, building on the house had trulli , with desks and raising cava bottles and abroad stainless steel tanks less than 10,000 liters. There is also a much larger ship, which is where older deposits, hopper, pneumatic press and other equipment for winemaking. There is another ship that came to visit I guess it will be the warehouse of the winery produces cava and so if you visit are the stills that are used to produce distilled from pomace wine-making and sparkling wine. The complex dispose a Rural Hotel, next to a lake with bird life and can be enjoyed with a visit to the winery for a weekend.
The name Pago de Tharsys, according to the guide that accompanied us from the word "pago" in the world of wine is associated with the winery is surrounded by its own vineyards which supply grapes for wine making (for French château) and Tharsys, referring to the first civilization in the Iberian peninsula, the Tartessos, believed the current farm Requena by traces found in excavations.
As a curious comment that in the 12 acres adjacent Godello and Albariño grown varieties Atlantic difficult to grow in this area, but that his care and attention results in a wine, with their vintage night in early September with a fresh good acidity in the presence of tropical fruit aromas and a very balanced in the mouth. Cabernet Franc are also grown, variety used in the 'coupages' from other varieties such as Bobal (which is made a sparkling white, Pago de Tharsys Unico), Merlot, Chardonnay, Macabeo, among others and as a foreign variety is Bronx, with which it is a sweet and aromatic wine grapes to gain soloing sugars for fermentation.
It is certainly that was a very instructive visit, where we find a variety of products in small quantities, but of excellent quality and above all innovation in design and originality.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Rueda white wines show
The DO Rueda presented its wines and wineries in Valencia yesterday afternoon at a prestigious hotel in the capital of the Turia. Here we come with over 500 people and over 30 wineries that delighted us with the liquid gold of its working.
The Verdejo was the main variety, young, fruity, sweet, expressive nose, full of citrus fruits, scented with jasmine, ... a big event for the senses that brought together the large and Vinos Sanz, Hermanos del Villar, Protos, Domecq, Marques de Riscal, José Pariente, ...
With varieties of Sauvignon Blanc and Viura wines also had enough especially in barrel fermented, which delighted the attendees.
Highlight some barrel fermented wines tasted as Palacio de Bornos Verdejo, Oro de Castilla Verdejo 2006, Finca Montico a Marqués de Riscal brand very expressive and fruity, Belondrade y Lurton 2007 a barrel fermented for 11 months rather spectacular, Cuatro Rayas from Agrícola Castellana with its Sauvignon Blanc Baco de Oro by the UEC ...
Well a wonderful evening organized by the specialized portal Verema.com that gave us great satisfaction and to know the wines of Rueda deeper into these parts.
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