Quintaluna 2013

Quintaluna 2013 expresses the freshness and genuine character of the Verdejo variety. With low yields we want to enhance concentration and varietal typicity. In its careful elaboration, the wine has been kept for about nine months in tank with its lees along with some elaborations in foudre and barrels. A representative wine of an area. The maximum expression of Segovian Verdejo. Sands, codones and fluvial terraces. Selected vineyards in Segovia. Altitude and continental climate. Unctuous minerality, vibrant finesse. This is Quintaluna 2013.

Quintaluna

Quintaluna

Authentic Segovian Verdejo

Climatic year

The Winter was mild and mostly rainy. Mild temperaturas in late April led to the sprouting in early May. A serve Frost in late April reduced harvest very significantly. Temperatures rose and the vineyards were develop while maintaining the delayed cycle. July and August were warm, but with cold nights. Heavy rains in September with nights with nights with temperatures favored the development of diseases of vine which further reduced harvest even more. The harvest began in October with a suitable cluster ripening. Our harvest was highly selective, as a result of irregularities in the climatic year, so that the grape entering winery did it at the ideal moment.

Grapes

Quintaluna is a Young wine that is made exclusively from Verdejo of the province of Segovia. 60 % is very Young grape on trellises, gronw certified organic and low performance. Dominate plots with high contente of sand and pebbles of different sizes. Some have higher proportions of clay and other significant proportioins of clay and limestone.

Winemakering process

The development of Quintaliina is made carefully. It starts with a selection in vineyard of bunches, which are harvested by hand in small boxes. At the cellar it passes to a cooling chamber for several hours prior to stemming and a very soft and low performance pressing. The must is disgorged naturally for 24 hours and the fermentation takes place in small stainless Steel tanks with natural native yeasts. The fermentation temperature isa round 19 degrees. This wine has no oak againg to preserve freshness. However, to increase its complexity and give it the ability to develop in the bottle, its remains in depositon its lees five months, with regular lees removal.