Montecillo Crianza 2022
Tempranillo and Garnacha merge their personalities in a wine with a great freshness lively expression.
Pairing:
Perfecto para tomar con platos de carne, guisos de cuchara y embutidos.
Conservation and consuption:
Temperatura ambiente
Tasting notes:
Entrada muy fresca en boca, con un tanino muy redondo. nos muestra su potencia frutal y seduce con un postgusto dulce y muy equilibrado.
Alcohol:
13,5% v/v
Type of wine:
Tinto
D.O.:
D.O.C.a. Rioja
Season:
2022
Grape variety:
92% Tempranillo, 8% Garnacha
Serve temperature:
Entre 14 - 16º
Price Kilo / Liter:
13,20 €/Litres
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ELABORATION
Cold vatting in a Ganymede tank, bleeding of 5% of the must and cold maceration for 2 to 3 days. The alcoholic fermentation is carried out with the greatest of controls, but always respecting the fruit, extracting thanks to this technology, color and aroma, as well as a ripe and soft tannin. After 12 days in contact with the skins, the wine is devatted by gravity and the wines undergo malolactic fermentation in subway cement tanks.
The Garnacha variety ferments in small truncated cone-shaped steel tanks, with controlled temperature and continuous pumping over after an 7% bleed. Aged for 18 months in American oak barrels from 1 to 3 years of age with a light toasting in the body of the barrel and medium toasting at the bottom. Garnacha: Aged for 16 months in American oak casks of an average age of 2 years. In this case the bottoms of the barrels are untoasted to preserve more of the fresh fruit notes.
TASTING NOTES
Clean and very bright cherry red color. Intense nose with pronounced presence of ripe red fruit mixed with sweet notes from the barrel. Red licorice aromas are assembled with cocoa and a light background of toast. Smooth entry on the palate, structured and round. Polished tannic intensity that combines with its natural acidity and makes it very present. Long with a clear aftertaste of red fruit and a background of sweet notes from high quality wood.
HISTORY AND ORIGIN
Tempranillo variety comes entirely from vineyards in Rioja Alta, with an average age of over 20 years, in the areas of Fuenmayor, Cenicero, Baños de Ebro, Sajazarra, Cuzcurrita and Arenzana. The Garnacha was harvested in vineyards in the Eastern Rioja area, in the area of Pradejón and Alcanadre.