Finca Antigua Syrah 2018

Tasting notes:

• Color: Dress deep purple with colored and very glycerine tear. Limpid with bright flashes.
• Nose: Highlights notes of blue flowers such as violets, lilacs, notes of licorice and inkwell. Very complex. The perfectly integrated wood shows notes of clove, cedar and spices. It is of great complexity and elegance with clear varietal notes of cold zone.
• Palate: friendly entrance with big fat mouth cremosidady because it is well polished tannin grape tannin is accompanied by clearly French wood. Spectacular development in the mouth with tasty end. invites you to repeat the drink. Good acidity.

Development and Aging:

Made from 100% syrah grapes from two plots, Alfalfa and La Cantera, from 0:13 hectares respectively. The vinification was made in in stainless steel tanks with temperature control. Maceration 18 days. aging was 10 months in French oak barrels.

Curiosities:

Martinez Bujanda is another of the families of La Rioja traditionally linked to viticulture (Finca Valpiedra) that focuses on the Manchego vineyard. For the project Finca Antigua acquired 976 hectares of vineyards, where he cultivated vineyards of Tempranillo, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, components of a range of varietal style New World wineries.

Finca Antigua is a place that leaves no one indifferent. In full route of Don Quixote, it offers visitors the possibility of getting lost, enjoy nature and silence in a magical natural environment that has little to do with preconceived large tracts of plain Manchego vineyard.

Located 900 meters above sea level, between the provinces of Cuenca and Toledo, in the municipality of Hinojosos, Finca Antigua is a unique landscape of scrubland, with a rich flora of oaks and Kermes oak and shrubs such as rosemary and thyme and other Mediterranean and with a diverse fauna, with species like ocellated lizard, dormouse, partridge, rabbit or hare plants, some of which give just name our varied wine tourism offer.