2006 Vintage
D. O. Ca Rioja
Grapes: Tempranillo 100 %
Tasting Notes: The 2006 La Nieta is purple/black colored with an alluring bouquet of coffee/mocha, sandalwood, Asian spices, lavender, black cherry, and blackberry. Ripe, sweet, and savory, it is a dense wine with excellent volume, a plush texture, and a lengthy, pure finish
Vineyard: Finca La Nieta, Paganos-Laguardia, Rioja Alavesa. Surface Area: 1.75 Has
Altitude: 525 m. Soils of Franc Clay. Year of Plantation: 1975. High-density plantings on trellis (2,70*1 ,10), 3.367 per hectare (6.911 vines in total). Organic fertilization every two years. Exhaustive hand selection and harvest in boxes of perfectly healthy, ripe grapes; further selection made in the winery using a sorting table.
Date of Harvest: 17 October 2006. Yield 2006: 4.200 kilos, 24 Hls.1 Ha.
Vinification: Destemed by hand with a rigorous selection of every grape. Cold pre-fermentativemaceration at 8 C during 5 days.
Fermentation: Fermented in 10 hectolitres oak barrels at 29° C. Pressed twice a day during the first 6 days of fermentation and once a day during the last five days ..
Maceration: On the skins for 16 days.
Malolactic Fermentation: In new French oak Bordelaise barrels.
Ageing: 18 months in new French Bordelaise oak barrels. Racking every four months.
Vintage: A good accumulation of showers during the winter period, with low temperatures during the month of April, resulting in late bud breaking. The late bud breaking develops with strength at the beginning of May with well balanced bunches. As the good weather continues throughout the month, the vineyard shows healthy vegetative development, with the vineyard being in full bloom throughout the second week of June. During the end of June and beginning of July the storms provoke mildew attacks which makes it difficult to control and results in a small loss of bunches. The rest of July remains dry with perfect temperatures. At the end of the month, the vineyard shows healthy vegetative development ahead of the cycle. In August due to an absence of storms, the weather is a lot drier with settled temperatures and low nocturnal temperatures. The anticipated evolution of the vineyard comes to a halt. During the last days of August and the beginning of September, the weather is dry and sunny with temperatures higher than average during the day and low or very low at night, ideal to achieve the perfect ripeness but slightly burning the bunches, resulting in dehydrated grapes. This therefore results in a rigorous selection of the grapes. The physiological ripeness occurs ahead of schedule, three weeks before reaching fenolic ripeness and two weeks before resulting in an early harvest during the third week of September, resulting in a healthy harvest with a high index of polifenoles and a superior level of sugar compared to a normal year.
Winemaker: Marcos Eguren.
Ratings:
La Nieta 2006
97 Points Guía Peñin 2009
97 Points Wine Enthusiast
96 Points The International Wine Review -Agosto 2008
94 Points Steven Tanzer, International Wine Cellar -Sept. 2008
94 Points Sobremesa, Octubre de 2008
93 Points Wine Advocate
La Nieta 2005
La Nieta 2005 Cuadro de Honor, los mejores vinos 2008
La Nieta 2005 Guia BMW 2008 - De los mejores vinos y bodegas Españolas
99 Points Restauradores -Los mejores vinos españoles 2008
99 Points Vivir el Vino -365 Vinos al año 2008
99 Points PlanetaVino - Diciembre 2007/Enero 2008
3 Lacres Todovino MMVIII
Oro ( 95 Points) Guia de Oro de los vinos de España 2008
95 Points Vinos de España - Numero 68
95 Points - Cuadro de Honor Guía Campsa -Los mejores vinos de España 2008
94 Points Wine Spectator, 31 de Enero -29 de Febrero de 2008
94 Points Guía Peñin 2008
93 Points The Wine Advocate, 29 de febrero de 2008
9,5/10 Points Guía de Vinos Gourmets 2008
8,75/10 Points Lo Mejor de la Gastronomia 2008
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