A! Admiración Selección Especial 2014

Tasting notes:

• Claret red, purple, with purple hues, violet, high, clean and bright.
• Nose: very intense, complex and wide while highlighting the ripe red fruit, roasted coffee, but with the passage of time appear spicy, balsamic and floral aromas with notes. Necsita time to aerate, is very expressive as contact with reality.
• Palate: a powerful wine, full bodied, but very soft, tasty, with a light step and long distance, very well structured, with the presence of mature, velvety fruit, with a very present ripe tannins and a long aftertaste. The wine must be opened with time.

Development and Aging:

Wineries wine produced in the Start in Pañafiel (Valladolid) based on the Tempranillo variety of Ribera del Duero, from old vines in the highest levels in the area. The altitude reaches the 850 meters, which gives an optimum thermal gradient for proper maturity of grapes.

The grapes are harvested in boxes of no more than 20 kg with preselection and final selection field at the entrance to the cellar. The stripping is done at very low revs to respect the integrity of the grapes and, after fermentation, a long maceration takes place by delestage that optimizes the skin. Barrel aging varies between 9 and 14 months depending on the discretion of the winemaker and is done in barrels of 300 liters with diverse backgrounds who bring exotic nuances, to finish its aging in bottle for at least another 9 months.

Curiosities:

Admiration! It is carried out in the own winery at the foot of the castle of Peñafiel, but not every year, only when the winemaker considers that all measures necessary to elaborate circumstances.

Wineries the Home is a dream of three professionals in the wine sector (two of whom live in Penafiel) and born with a clear objective: to produce wines of high quality; wines intended for aging in barrels, wine unhurried, elegant and tasty. Wines like that once gave name to a Denomination of Origin technical director and partner, Angel Luis Margüello helped develop with so much affection and personality there for the 80s and 90s are such wines which under its experience They have been the true icons of the area and it believes are back. The power gives way back to the elegance, the softness toughness, aggressive to elegant tannin tannin, and the rush to tranquility.