Sofros 2012

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Wine tasting:

N/A

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: Sofros 2012.

Designation of origin: D.O. Toro.

Technical manager: Ramiro Carbajo del Río.

Production: 10.000 bottles.

Viticulture: Made with tinta de toro grape from very gently cared vineyards of 5 hectares,of 85 years of age, head-pruned, located in a villaje called Morales de Toro in the territorial región of Zamora, at a 705 metres of altitude.

Soil: Sediments of sandstones, clays and limestones, with boulders on surface. Low content of organic material and an unbalanced on acidit and pH.

Vineyard age: 85 years.

Pruning system: Goblet.

Grape harvest: During 11 and 12 of October, harvested in 15 kg. boxes.

Grape variety: Tinta de Toro.

Packaging:

Format: 6 bottles on cardboard box.

Pre-fermentation process:

Duration: 5 days.

Temperature: 8 °C.

Alcoholic fermentation:

Duration: 5 days with native yeasts.

Temperature: At 24ºC reaching up to 30ºC during some hours.

Malolactic fermentation:

On barrels.

In new French oak barrels with inoculation of lactic bacteria

Maturing in casks:

Capacity: 225 liters.

Moment of usage: New barrels, we change them every year.

Type: French oak 98 % and American 2%.

Grain size: Very fine.

Roast: Medium.

Aging: 15 months.

Switches: 4.

Physical-Chemical properties:

Alcoholic strength by volume: 14,5% vol.

Total acidity content: 5,5 g/l

Residual sugar: -1,2 g/l.

pH: 3,4.

Clarification: Without clarifying.

Filtration: No filtration.