Viña Real Gran Reserva 2015

Tasting notes:

Color red-ruby vivid and bright with light garnet trim and high layer color. Very intense and complex nose outstanding notes for your stay in barrel (cafes, special, leather, roasted coffee) or conjoined with aromas of candied fruits and nuts. The entry into mouth it is very soft, unctuous evolving into an intense finish, structured and long persistence. At all times seen sweet tannin, well tamed and perfectly integrated into the final matrix of wine. It is a wine bottle evolved very positively, presented a great potential.

Development and aging:

Wine made from grapes Tempranillo 95% Graciano and 5% high quality harvested by hand in the best payments Rioja-Alavesa. The fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature, performing successive overs and "delestages" in order to get a good extraction of structure and color. The malolactic fermentation is done in barrels of French and American oak, and by hand stabilizes and clean racking wine naturally. After the aging in about 2 years the wine is his 36 months aging in bottle , During which the wine is reaching the elegance and softness that characterizes him.

The winery Vina Real de Laguardia, designed by French architect Philippe Mazieres consists of three buildings, the main of which is built in red cedar and shaped tub. Natural light, the caves dug to store wine and cutting-edge technology - with the use of gravity, installation of the first vertical hopper in Spain - define this monumental work.

Vineyards in the Sierra de Cantabria steep fall towards the Ebro basin. The mountains protect this Rioja Alavesa where the Atlantic climate combined with clay soils and calcareous.