Viña Santurnia Crianza
Tasting Note
See: Cherry red colour, high layer, clean and bright.
Nose: Clean and elegant aroma, a mature fruit fused with coconut, vanilla, spices and toasted aromas from the oaks.
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Mouth: Velvety, it has good volume and balance. Fruit and oak well assembled with fresh long finish. Retronasal appear again in fruit and vanilla notes.
Vineyards
Labastida: Plantation density of 1,20 each 2,6meters. Pruning type: cordon royal .
Plantation year 1980.
Haro: Plantation density of 1,20 each 2,7 m.
Prunning type: vaso. Plantation year 1990.
Yields of 6500 kg/ha.
Harvest
Manual, between the second week and the third week of October.
Vinification
After the manual harvest, is done the peeling in a smooth manner by directly falling into the fermentation tank not using any type of pump. Alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks of 25000 Kg, during8 days with temperature-controlled fermentation between 28 and 30º C , extended post-fermentative maceration on the skins for 5 days, with two pump-overs daily in the beginning with a light pump-over daily at the end. After is realized the pressing by treading on the inside of the tanks for extracting the maximum wine of natural form.
Ageing
Oak cask of American 80% and French oak 20%, during 12 months. Bottling one year minimum.
Grape Varieties
Tempranillo 100%