FINCA LA EMPERATRIZ GRAN VINO Tinto 2016

Harvest:  Hand-harvested into 180 kg crates, between the 18th and the 20th October.

Varietals:  70% Tempranillo, 28% Garnacha y 2% Viura.

Wine-making: Grape selection at the sorting table. 100% destemmed and 40% crushed. Grapes ferment in concrete tanks.

Tempranillo, Garnacha and Viura are harvested at once and vatted in the same tank, followed by a 5 days cold maceration.

The wine fermented with indigenous yeasts and daily smooth pump-overs. After 20 days of post-fermentative maceration, it is devatted directly to barrel for MLF.

Ageing: 18 months in barrels, 60% new French oak and 40% second-year American oak barrels.