Description
Store: Sabariz Winery
DO: Without DO (Sabariz, Ourense)
Add: 2016
Variety: Albariño, Treixadura and other varieties.
Grade: 12,5% vol.
Tasting note: View: Clean pale yellow color with steely reflections.
Nose: The nose is less exuberant than other vintages with a fresher profile with notes of stone fruit (apricot), citrus (green lemon), bitter orange, lychees, wild flowers, hay, yeasts and a mineral flint background.
Mouth: fresh, it has nerve, medium body with slight bitterness in the very pleasant aftertaste. The granite minerality returns in the aftertaste. An Atlantic vintage, with more acidity and a long journey in the bottle.
Serving temperature: 10-12º C
Harvest: This great wine comes from grapes from a vineyard planted in 2007 on granite soils, Xabre, poor soil with little productive vineyard. Altitude of 500 meters in the lowest area of the farm, with hot days and cold nights that produce late ripening. Biodynamic viticulture in a farm organism. The agriculture model advocated by Rudolf Steiner and that Pilar Higuero puts into practice in the Ourense municipality of San Amaro. Very close to the DO Ribeiro, but outside of it.
Preparation: Manual harvest making the selection of the best grapes in the field, only in the morning, so that it enters the cellar fresh.
Spontaneous fermentation, one month on gross lees, two and a half years on fine lees. Made in stainless steel, not filtered, not clarified, not stabilized, minimal addition of sulfur 10 days before bottling. Wine made to consume with years in the bottle.
Pairing: At Made in Spain Gourmet we recommend it in oriental dishes such as Japanese, fish and shellfish, white meat, poultry, soups, creams, and vegetables. And as always with white wines, vegan semi-cured cheeses such as Veggie Karma, or the ovjea soul of Calaveruela.
A Pita Cega, unquestionable quality
Its vineyards are located at an altitude of 500 m, and 300 m from the Miño River near a Celtic town, Lansbricae, dating from the XNUMXnd century BC, until its Romanization. Apparently, already then, wine was sent to Rome, we are told by the remains of amphorae found.
They are surrounded by a circus of mountains that shelter our vineyards in winter, the climate is oceanic-Mediterranean, with average annual temperatures of 14ºC and rainfall that exceeds 1.000 mm per year, with warm summers, usually dry.
Its soil is made up of little evolved formations and settled on very hard parent rocks, basically made up of very old granitic materials from the Hercynian period and large amounts of quartz.
We are talking about a peculiar "granite viticulture", settled on acidic, loose and well-oxygenated soil, which gives rise to a fresh wine, with aromas of orange blossom, acacia, vine flowers, Claudia plum and apricot with hints of citrus and aromatic plants. , spacious, elegant, peculiar and complex.
In this farm it is known of its cultivation, by documents, which take us to the XNUMXth century, the period from which the house and nearby buildings date.
They grow organically, biodynamically, to achieve the balance of this living organism, they treat the strains with herbal infusions, from the land itself and in a homeopathic way, their soils are poor but very lively, the yield is low. In the search for biodiversity, the vineyard is surrounded by lavender, mint, rosemary, plum, peach and rose trees, which the auxiliary fauna appreciates.
The carbon footprint is almost negligible. We work as your grandparents did, with the soul, in the belief that good wine is in the vineyard, our land reconciles us with the world.
They harvest at the optimum moment of maturation, by hand, on fruit day, making the selection of the best grapes in the field, only in the morning, so that they enter the cellar fresh.
In the winery they are mere observers of a natural process, letting nature express itself, they do not need to repair work errors in the vineyard, the life processes present in each of their grapes allow the juice to become wine by itself, we only exalt the quality of the vintage.
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An exclusive wine with a very limited production.