SITE - VALTUILLE DE ABAJO
Villegas
The Mencía and Alicante Bouschet grapes, with 15% stems, ferment with indigenous yeasts in a 7,500-liter French oak foudre, without temperature control. The wine then ages for twelve months in 500-liter barrels and in a 1,000-liter oval foudre, refining to show a deep, fruity profile full of character from the Bierzo region.
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“You were only twenty-seven years old
beautiful, in love and faithful,
other years you waited for him,
but you never saw him again.”
Helios Estevez
El Paraje
In Villegas, a historic goblet-trained vineyard in Valtuille de Abajo, a singular vein of sand crosses the site and brings a distinctive elegance to its wines. At an altitude of 500 meters above sea level and facing east, its 90-year-old vines of Mencía and Alicante Bouschet grow on clay-loam soils with a strong presence of sand.
The result is a place of fine and expressive character, where the age, soil and light of Bierzo combine to give life to wines full of identity.
Technical Data
Vineyard
Vineyard crossed by a unique vein of sand that adds elegance to the wines.
Varieties in the vineyard
90% Mencía / 10% Alicante bouschet
Height
500m. above sea level
Average vineyard age
90 years
Winemaking
In French oak foudre / gravity wetted hat
Volume
2500 bottles
Type
Glass and trellis
Orientation
This
Soil
Loamy-clayey with strong presence of sand
Fermentation
Spontaneous with autochthonous yeasts
Malolactic fermentation
In French oak barrels
Breeding:
12 months in 225 and 500-liter French oak barrels