Contino Reserva 2015

TASTING NOTES:

• View: it is ruby ​​colored with atejados edges. Medium-high, bright and clean layer.
• Nose: complex, expressive, scented red fruits such as strawberry and raspberry, spicy and toasted oak.
• Mouth: powerful, round, tasty and greasy. Roasted notes, spicy and balsamic touches. With post balanced and long finish and fresh taste.

APPELLATION: Rioja

VINEYARD: Bodegas Viñedos del Contino. Founded in 1973, it has vineyards in a land with deep and adequate permeability for root development, water stored in the ground naturally. Its soils are calcareous sand in the deeper calcareous clay surface in middle layers.

GRAPES: 85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, 3% and 2% Mazuelo Grenache.

AGEING: the aging process takes place over a period of two years in French oak barrels used (60%) and American (40%). The process continues for an additional year in bottle.

PREPARATION: grapes Tempranillo, Mazuelo and Grenache are harvested by hand and selected carefully, ensuring optimum ripeness. After the stripping, are subjected to fermentation in stainless steel tanks twelve thousand liters controlled temperatures between 28 and 30 °C and then its fermentative 15 to 20 days maceration post, passing malolactic fermentation, refining the He came to the requisite acidity.

PAIRING: Red meats, grilled meats, roast lamb, stews, roasts, cutlets with vine shoots, hunting, meats, cheeses and smoked cheeses.

RECOMMENDED TEMPERATURE SERVICE: 16-18 °C

ALCOHOL: 14%