Silbón Verdejo 2021

Wine tasting:

For the love of green. Fruit, lots of fruit, white pear flower, with notes of fennel and again white fruit. Balanced and tasty with bitter varietal accents, well-rounded and subtle. Good acidity.
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: Silbón Verdejo 2021.

Designation of origin: Blanco D.O. Rueda.

Technical manager: Ramiro Carbajo del Río.

Production: 20.000 bottles.

Viticulture: This wine is made with the variety of grape Verdejo, from a controlled vineyard of 29 years of age, in formation of trellis, located in the municipality of Rueda (Valladolid). At 761 meters of altitude.
A warm winter that gave way to a dry summer. Very good grape quality with a very pronounced average decrease in yield, initially due to the Filomena storm (in spring) that caused frost and some hail, and later due to the rains and some hailstorms in late August and early September. Even so, these conditions helped to increase the quality of the grape and yielded an optimal ripeness.

Soil: Of gravely terrain with sandy loam texture, good aeration and drainage.

Vineyard age: 29 years.

Pruning system: Espalier.

Grape harvest: 18 of September, harvested in 15 kg. boxes.

Grape variety: Verdejo.

Packaging:

Format: 6 bottles on cardboard box.

Pre-fermentation process:

Duration: 3 hours.

Temperature: 6 °C.

Alcoholic fermentation:

Duration: 27 days.

Temperature: 11 °C.

Malolactic fermentation:

N/A.

Maturing in tanks:

On lees suspended for three months and a half.

Physical-Chemical properties:

Alcoholic strength by volume: 13% vol.

Total acidity content: 6,2 g/l

Residual sugar: < 2 g/l.

pH: 3,6.

Clarification: Natural with cold.

Filtration: 0.45 microns when bottling.