Al-Nabiz Verdejo 2012

Wine tasting:

This is a complex and expressive Verdejo variety that never fails to impress the taster. Salty and spicy with oxidative notes but not cider-like. It lingers on the palate. Unctuous and intense. Easy to drink.
The enologist:
Ramiro Carbajo Del Río.

Winery:

We continue working in rented facilities, where we have our deposits, barrels and everything necessary to continue maintaining a craft and respectful production with the grape and wine, trying to emulate our ancestors.


Technical information:

Wine name and harvest year: Al-Nabiz Verdejo 2012.

Designation of origin: Vino de España.

Technical manager: Ramiro Carbajo del Río.

Production: 1.000 bottles.

Viticulture: This wine is made from Verdejo grape, from a 30-year-old controlled vineyard with trellis system, located in the municipality of Rueda (Valladolid). Altitude: 761 m.2012 vintage was marked by a drought throughout the year, poor budding because of frost, high summer temperatures and rains in late September, what made the harvest quite irregular and very selective. For this wine, we used leave and cluster thinnings to obtain an optimum ripening of the grapes, aiming for sugar concentration and complexity.

Soil: Of gravelly terrain with sandstone texture, good aeration and drainage.

Vineyard age: 30 years.

Pruning system: Espalier.

Grape harvest: 26 of September, harvested in 15 kg. boxes.

Grape variety: Verdejo.

Packaging:

Format: 6 bottles on cardboard box.

Pre-fermentation process:

Duration: 12 hours.

Temperature: 3 °C.

Alcoholic fermentation:

Duration: 20 days.

Temperature: 14 °C.

Malolactic fermentation:

N/A.

Maturing in tanks:

N/A.

Physical-Chemical properties:

Alcoholic strength by volume: 14,5% vol.

Total acidity content: 5,40 g/l

Residual sugar: < 2 g/l.

pH: 3,42.

Clarification: Natural with cold and stay in barrel..

Filtration: 0.45 microns when bottling.