Appellation: Vino de España.
Cuvée: Proscrito.
Colour: pink.
Grapes: Palomino 90%, Garnacha Tintorera 10%.
About: an extraordinary pink wine, more of a pale red, from two usually poorly thought-of grapes, here magically transformed into a wine that finds a balance between gravity and levity.
Vines
Location: from more than a dozen parcels around Serdur and Larouco.
Size ha: less than 1.
Age: vines planted between 1940 and 1965.
Soils: granite.
Exposition: south.
Altitude: 500 to 600m.
Training: gobelet (or vaso).
Farming: organic, by hand, leaving the soils touched as little.
Average yield hl/ha: 20.
Climate: Atlantic, cold in winter, hot in summer, likelihood of fog and humid conditions all year.
Winemaking
The harvest is de-stemmed by hand and grapes are macerated on their skins for 5 days before being very gently pressed and the wine moved to old french oak barrels. There the wines stay, without moving, on fine lees, until bottling un-filtered, and without any added sulfites during the whole process.
Vintage Notes 2017
Yield hl/ha: 10.
Harvested: mid September.
Bottles produced: 1,150.
Date bottled: 2018-02.
Alcohol %: 11.6.
SO2 Total: <20.
Tasting: soft, rounded, viscous with tropical fruit, bitter cherry, and raspberry fruit, a lick of astringency gives it grip and direction, luscious.
Vintage Notes 2019
Yield hl/ha: 15.
Harvested: mid September.
Bottles produced: 1,200.
Date bottled: 2020-03.
Alcohol %: 12.
SO2 Total: 0 added.
Tasting: from old barrel 2020-02 great fun yet substantial as always, pale red, apparently light, yet persistent, intense aroma red berry fruit, energy.