Ostatu Blanco Gran Reserva 2019
Vintage exclusivity.
Viura and Malvasía come together in this white wine, born from the highest areas of our oldest vineyards, where altitude and limestone soil impart character and freshness. It is only produced in exceptional vintages, when these varieties reach their fullest expression.
Product Details
Winegrowers & Winemakers
Wine-maker: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego. Vineyard management: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego and Ernesto Sáenz de Samaniego
Region
D.O.C Rioja, Subzona Rioja Alavesa
Vintage & Classification
2019. Excellent
Production
4.075 bottles 0,75l.
Product Format
- Yellow, with a light bright golden.
- Its nose is thin, intense and deep, with aromas reminiscent of fresh almonds to delicate white stone fruits, dried apricots, notes of white honey, hawthorn flower and caramel.
- In the mouth it is meaty, elegant and fresh, with a very good acidity that will extend life for several years.
- Wine-maker: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego. Vineyard management: Iñigo Sáenz de Samaniego and Ernesto Sáenz de Samaniego.
- 85% Viura, 15% Malvasia
- Vineyards of over 70 years.
- Plantation density: 3,000 vines/hectare.
- Goblet pruning
- Production: 6,300 kg/hectare
- Hand harvested, in 15 kg boxes
- The grapes come from the highest parts of our oldest vineyards, in the district of Samaniego at an altitude between 400 and 580 m above sea level.
- Poor calcareous/clay soil, on south facing slopes.
- The subsoil is made up of various layers of white rock.
- Vineyard grape selection, only the best grapes are taken to the winery.
- Light destemming process to avoid damaging the grapes, without wringing out.
- Pre-fermentation maceration cold for 5 hours.
- The grape juice ferments on the lees in stainless steel vats for 23 days at a temperature of 15-16°C.
- Natural cold stabilisation.
- Filtered only for tartaric stabilisation process.
- The wine was not going under malolactic fermentation and was aged in second year’s French oak barrels over 12 months.
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Vintage exclusivity.
Viura and Malvasía come together in this white wine, born from the highest areas of our oldest vineyards, where altitude and limestone soil impart character and freshness. It is only produced in exceptional vintages, when these varieties reach their fullest expression.