Arzuaga Reserva 2019

Tasting notes:

• Color: Clean and bright, ruby ​​red and purplish hues.
• Nose: Great aromatic, complex and elegant intensity where compote of red berries, well assembled with tertiary aromas of a clean and subtle oak barrels, leaving smoky aftertaste and roasted tones predominate.
• Boca: Envelope and structured, with great smoothness marked by its sweet tannin. silky sensations and prolonged aftertaste.

Development and Aging:

Made with Tinto Fino grapes (95%) and Merlot (3%) and Albillo 2%.

For the preparation of Arzuaga Reserva grapes from vines more than 80 years in the province of Burgos are used by a small percentage of vineyards in the province of Valladolid, in order to combine the structure and complexity of the old vines with the freshness and liveliness of the younger vineyards, although traditionally grown.

All harvest is done manually in boxes of no more than 15 kg. At the peak of maturity, that makes us the ideal harvest date, this is done separately for each of the more than 20 different plots used for this wine. After selection tables are encubará for a pre-fermentation maceration at low temperature, and subsequent alcoholic fermentation at 28 ° C, leading to malolactic fermentation and aging in new French oak barrels for 26 months.

Curiosities:

Arzuaga Navarro was founded in 1993 and is located in the town of Quintanilla de Onesimo (Valladolid), in the Golden Mile of Ribera del Duero.

Its characteristic building cellar, solid and rustic stone, with monastic evocation by its arcades and towers on the sides and a bell tower topped by the weathervane of the winds, shown travelers the national road 122 linking Soria with Valladolid, a wine par excellence in Spain.

Arzuaga Navarro has also the honor of being one of the first wineries in the O.D. Ribera del Duero to reach a million bottles of production, also the recognition of being a pioneer in the world of wine in our country, something that began to develop already in the second half of the decade of the 90 currently available in the same facilities from the cellar of a hotel in the top flight with a complete range of spa and enoterapia.