Alto las Pizarras 2005. Calatayud.
VARIETY: 100% old vine Garnacha, (70-100 years old)
VINEYARDS: Around the villages of Acered, Alarba and Castejón de Alarba from mountainside slate vineyards 3000 feet high. These slate vineyards give the wine a pronounced minerality and structure. Yields were limited to a maximum of 1 ton per acre.
VINIFICATION: The grapes were harvested by hand, as soon as they reached optimum maturity in each parcel. They were collected, and transported to the winery in small cases, before being selected by hand on a selection table. Individual parcels were cold-soaked for 4 days, prior to fermentation, which was started using wild yeasts, before inoculation with cultured yeasts.
The wine was transferred in new French oak barrels of between 225 and 500 litres, to complete its Malolactic fermentation, and for 11 months aging.
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Las Pizarras & Alto Las Pizarras Data Sheets.doc
Alto Las Pizarras Shelf Talker.doc
