Beautiful dark garnet red color. Expressive and elegant character with lots of forest fruits and hints of licorice and chocolate. Beautiful integrated wood aging. Ripe elegant style with a long, tasty final.
- climate
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Baja Montaña, Valdizarbe and Tierra Estella are located on the riverside nearby the Pyrenees. This favorable location brings with it a dry climate with a higher humidity (no lack of rain in the summer and warm as the grapes have to ripen). (Average precipitation: 525 mm per year.) The average temperature is 12.3ºC with a peak of 28ºC in summer and a low of -2º in winter.) The Ribera Alta sub-zone can be split in two climatically. In the north (Comarcas: Olite and Lerin) there is a continental climate, slightly drier than in the adjacent subzones, the average precipitation is 525 mm, the average temperature is 13 ° C, and there is sometimes a period of lack of water. The south (Marcilla comarca) approaches a semi-arid climate with an average precipitation of 435 mm and an average temperature of up to 13,6 ° C. The Ribera Baja has a dry climate, the annual rainfall is 350 mm and the average temperature is 14 ° C.
- soil
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Soft, deep, fertile topsoil; underground of gravel with calcareous solid rock.
- vinification
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Garnacha, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Tempranillo. 12 months in oak barrels (50% French & 50% American oak) followed by a year of ripening in the bottle.