Mayor De Castilla Roble

Tasting notes

Inside the area of Ribera Del Duero, Mayor de Castilla Roble is a wine designed so that you could enjoy it in its ideal point of consumption since the output from the winery.

It is an intense cherry red color that maintains a live and clean tone. On the nose is expressing us memories of fruits in balanced with the tertiary aromas of new oak wood. The taste on the mouth is wide, with deep charge of soft tannins, persistent and very together in its structure.

Fermenting process

Grapes of this Roble wine comes from the own vineyards or from selected plots, property of the farmers who are kept a close contact during the year.

The harvest is late, made towards the 2nd week of October, with the purpose of getting a high concentration of polyphones and a good extract. However, with the pruning is regulated the amount of grapes in each vineyard. The objective is performed easily, since the medium yield of the rainfed vineyard rarely is up to 5.000kg/ hectare.
The Mayor de Castilla Roble maceration is long, about 25-30 days, with soft pumping over. Once is racked and lightly pressed, is moved to barrels where it will do the malolactic fermentation.

The time in barrel is extended to 190 days, alternating oak wood of different backgrounds. Supplement, the time that stays in the bottle in the winery helps it to have an exceptional quality that it will maintain its better expression and it will be enhanced in the next years.

Servicing recommendations

We recommend serving this Mayor de Castilla Crianza at 16º C.

Pairing

This wine goes perfectly with all kind of meats and spicy stews.