2006 Vintage
D. O. Calificada Rioja
Varieties: Tempranillo 100 %
Tasting Notes:
The 2006 Finca El Bosque has an enticing aroma of balsamic, exotic spice, and black cherry. Palate is smooth, round, full and velvety.
Vineyard: Finca EI Bosque, San Vicente de la Sonsierra, La Rioja; 1.4820 Has (3.66 acres). Soils of calcareous clay; abundance of gravel and small rounded stones on surface. Year of plantation: 1973. High density plantings on trellis. Organic fertilization every 2 years. Exhaustive hand harvested in boxes of perfectly healthy, ripe grapes; further selection made in the winery using a sorting table. Yield: 27 Hls.1 Ha.
Date of harvest: from the 8th October, 2006
Vinification: Destemmed by hand with a rigorous selection of every grape. Cold pre-fermentative maceration at 8 C. during 3 days.
Fermentation: Fermented in French oak barrels of 8.000 kgrs. of capacity at 28 C. Pressed twice a day during the first 8 days of fermentation and once a day during the last 5 days of fermentation.
Maceration: On the skins for 21 days.
Malolactic Fermentation: In new French and Romanian Bordelaise oak barrels.
Aging: Barrel: 18 months in new French and Center-European Bordelaise oak barrels. Racking every four months. Bottled: May 2008
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.
Presentation:
Bottle: Bordelais Antiqua, 750 mL and 1,280 grams; Quercia colour, U.V. filtered.
Cork: 54 mm long by 24.5 mm diameter, average density 180 grams. Washed and sterilized. 100% Natural, maximum quality.
Label: Recyclable paper printed with ecological ink (without heavy metals).
Winemaker: Marcos Eguren.
Ratings:
R Parker : ´Perhaps my favourite value winery in Rioja´
WINE ADVOCATE : ´ This Bodega is a brilliant source of value priced Riojas´
96 Points Wine Advocate
98 Points Proensa
94 Points Tanzer
94 Points Peñin
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