Astral red wine

Astral red wine 2006

Astral is the only wine in the winery, and with it, Eduardo García It seeks to enhance fruit over wood, without tannin aggressiveness. And he gets it: it is a blunt wine, with mature and firm tannins, concentrated, and good acidity; It is fresh and very juicy. Although a few more years in the bottle will end up rounding all their maturity and potential.

Note: This wine has been clarified with egg albumin and without filtering. It is recommended decantIn addition, to enjoy all its aromatic potential.

The entire vineyard of the winery is concentrated in the municipality of Anguix. Of the 15 hectares in property, ten are planted with strains of fine reds grafted with their own clones, obtained through a masal selection and vineyards with ages between 20 and 70 years.

The vineyard is mostly understood by small plots-La Cañada, El Val, The Astrals, ... with low planting densities -2.200 strains/ha- and north-south orientation. Between 2003 and 2004, 14 new hectares with fine red and other varieties are planted, with higher densities of 3,500-4,000 feet per hectare that allow the plant's vigor to better regulate. Herbicides are not used and herbs are eliminated by soil tillage.

Attempts are made to respect the bacterial flora using only sulfur and phytosanitary treatments in the event that diseases do not disappear. UVA collection is performed in boxes of 12 kilograms. In the winery, as little as possible, the grapes are intervened by limiting treatments to the maximum.

Each plot is vinified separately and according to its state of maturity. Fermentations are carried out with native yeasts, macerations are not too long and special attention is paid to the comebacks. During the elaboration it is intended to retain all the aroma of fruit and avoid the extraction of aggressive tannins, for this they mobilize the grapes by gravity. For parenting they use the French oak -80% -and American -20% -, renewing the barrels by 30%each year and giving the wine a wooden stay of 14 to 20 months.

During maloractic they only carry out a transfer, and one or two during parenting. Astral production will grow based on the development of the vineyard and the current works of the new winery in the coming years. Initially they will bottling between 23,000 and 40,000 units, until the 29 hectares in total allow reaching 100,000 bottles per year.

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