Pittacum Aurea

Mencia 100%

Production 15 000 bottles

A cold, wet winter gave way to a rainy spring, which guarantees enough water in the soil. The summer was hot and dry, contributing to slow maturation. As a result, the harvest was delayed, beginning at the end of September and ending in mid-October.
This translated into intense, elegant, fresh and coloured wines. Undoubtedly one of the best and most balanced vintages of recent times.

TASTING NOTES: Rich color. Elegant, red fruit, cherry and currants, pure Mencia fragrance. Later the mineral component appears as earth and stone. Structured in the mouth, balanced and fresh, ends after a long palate. A clean, straightforward and deep wine.

Color

Red

Producers

Pittacum Viñedos y bodegas

Grape

#Mencia

Region

The plots of land that produced the best wines have been known from time immemorial in the Bierzo region. The finca areixola, a centuries old vineyard is located in one such site and planted in a high density pattern with gobelet shaped vines as dictated by tradition. This vineyard only admits manual care, its soil, unblemished and uncompacted by heavy machinery only knows the footprints of the wine growers.

Wine production

The grapes arrive at the winery in small 12 kilo boxes. Bunch by bunch they are selected at the sorting table and crushed without destemming. Winemaking takes place in stainless steel tanks with light cap plunging and must siphoning during fermentation, that lasted 15 days at 28 °C degrees. After a 20 day maceration period the wine was bled and kept in the tank for two more weeks before taking it to new French oak barrels each having 220 liters holding capacity. At the end of the spring, with the coming of good weather and favored by rising temperatures malolactic fermentation begun inside the barrel, lasting from the beginning to the end of June of 2010. Still the wine remained in the barrel to meet the requisite 14 months of repose during which the wine is left undisturbed in the cellar without a single racking. Afterwards it is bottled and another period of long repose begins that will last for two more years.