VINTAGE 2005

CIRSION

Wine from selected bunches where the grapes have matured exceptionally.

In 1995 we discovered that some vines produced grapes whose flavor was very different to the one of the vines around them. They produced a sensation of fullness, of volume, with notes that were more alike to a wine than to a grape. Two years later, we made our first CIRSION, which we did not commercialize, and we tested that with a short aging, the wine reached a level of incredible silkiness and a fruit complexity out of the ordinary. Each vintage we walk through the vineyards looking for this curious natural peculiarity, and that’s how, one in a thousand, the CIRSION grapes are picked.

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2005

PEÑÍN

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CLIMATIC CYCLE

Excellent vintage until October 12, that the rains started. Dry and healthy Summer. 463 mm. precipitations in the vine-growing year. Perfect ripening. September with moderate temperatures and cool nights.

TECHNICAL DATA

Production area:

D.O.Ca.Rioja

Variety:

100% Tempranillo

Vineyards:

Selected bunches from different plots. Applied methods from own research and development on polymerisation of tannins and anthovyanins

Age of the vineyards:

Old bush vines

Harvest:

Hand-picked in 16 kg crates and hand sorted at the winery

Fermentation:

In French oak vats, with temperature controlled. Malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels.

Aging:

8 months in 100% brand new French oak barrels

Stabilisation:

Natural methods

Clarification:

Lyophilized egg white

Alcohol content:

14,5% Vol.

Packaging:

Carton cases of 3 bottles (single bottles in wooden cases)

Formats:

Bottles of 75cl, 1,5l, 3l and 6l.

TASTING

Colour:

Almost impenetrable with purple notes.

Nose:

Great complexity, very small black ripe fruits but fresh among them blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries.

Chocolate and mint, sweet spices, Indian ink, moist ground before rain.

Palate:

The volume is enormous, it occupies so much space in the mouth and the aromas emerge by the retronasal passage. Great presence of small black fruits with great freshness, butterscotch. Fine tannin.

It seems impossible that a wine is so powerful and silky at the same time. The aftertaste is endless leaving all the sensations described in the nose, but especially all the black fruit.

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