Marqués de Cáceres - Excellens Rioja Rosé | Spanish Pink Wine

VINEYARDS & YIELDS
A selection of vineyards planted with Garnacha Tinta at some of our town’s highest altitudes to provide maximum finesse. The Tempranillo vines are also planted on fresher slopes located in our village and in Rioja Alavesa.Generally speaking, the vineyards are around 25 years old or more with average yields of 42 HL/HA.

TERRAIN
Mainly clay and limestone.

VINIFICATION
The stalks are removed and the grapes are pumped gently into the tanks, a process involving less crushing that allows us to preservethe extraction of colour and aromas. Weapply a skin-contact fermentation to extract aromas without too much colour. We then proceed with the bleeding process, separately, for the Garnacha tinta and Tempranillo. This phase enables us to highlight the grapes’ primary aromas that give this rosé a very refined bouquet.The resulting pale-coloured must is then combined and fermented at low temperatures (16º-18ºC) in stainless-steel tanks.The wine is bottled during the months of December and January following the harvest.