LADERAS de Ostatu 2016
The highest vineyard. Made with Tempranillo and Viura from "El Portillo", planted at 630m of altitude. A facing south slope protected by small foothills of the Cantabria mountain range. A wine where the uniqueness of a high and advanced age’s terroir is expressed, each vintage, with a delicate floral character.
Product Details
Winegrower & winemaker
Wine-maker: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego. Vineyard management: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego and Ernesto Sáenz de Samaniego
Region
D.O.C Rioja, Sub-zone Rioja Alavesa
Vintage & Classification
2016. Very Good
Tasting notes
Intense cherry colour with purple highlights, nice concentration. Memories of ripened red and black fruit (cherries, red and black plums), a soft floral touch with some wild wink. Deep balsamic, sweet and spicy background. Nice and honest expression of the Tempranillo grape. Tasty and fruity mouth, freshness sensation and longitudinal trace of acidity. With volume, structure and greedy and polished tannins that increase the feeling of fleshiness. It finishes with a mineral key of terroir, good for a long life.
Production
4.199 bottles 75 cl.
Product Format
€27.80
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- Intense cherry colour with purple highlights, nice concentration.
- Memories of ripened red and black fruit (cherries, red and black plums), a soft floral touch with some wild wink.
- Deep balsamic, sweet and spicy background.
- Nice and honest expression of the Tempranillo grape.
- Tasty and fruity mouth, freshness sensation and longitudinal trace of acidity.
- With volume, structure and greedy and polished tannins that increase the feeling of fleshiness.
- It finishes with a mineral key of terroir, good for a long life.
- Wine-maker: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego. Vineyard management: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego and Ernesto Sáenz de Samaniego
- 97% Tempranillo and 3% Viura
- Vine planted in 1967 (51 years old).
- Plantation density: 3.000 vines/hectare.
- Goblet pruning.
- Production: 4,320 kg/hectare.
- Hand harvested, in 15 Kg boxes, on 6th October.
- The grapes come from our "Portillo" plot, at an average altitude of 630 m above sea level.
- Mainly calcareous/clay, except the westernmost part of the plot which is predominantly stony.
- The subsoil is made up of various layers of white rock.
- The plot is uneven and south facing, sheltered by small hillocks that surround it.
- Vineyard grape selection, only the best grapes are taken to the winery.
- Perfect destemming process to protect the berry as in a hand-made process.
- Cold pre-fermentative maceration and alcoholic fermentation in a wooden vat for 19 days at a maximum temperature of 25°C.
- The cap is breaking up lightly and the stepping process is made just at mid-fermentation.
- Malolactic fermentation in new French oak casks (two of 500 li-tres capacity, and 4 of 225 litres).
- 14 months cask ageing. Bottled on June 2017.
- This wine does not undergo any stabilisation or filtering process.
Mediterranean climate with strong Atlantic influence. Extreme winter-summer contrast.
- Precipitation: 565.6 litres
- Ave.Temp: min 11.1ºC, max 22.2ºC, average 12.7ºC
- Soil Ave. Temp.: 14.7ºC
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The highest vineyard. Made with Tempranillo and Viura from "El Portillo", planted at 630m of altitude. A facing south slope protected by small foothills of the Cantabria mountain range. A wine where the uniqueness of a high and advanced age’s terroir is expressed, each vintage, with a delicate floral character.