Charmian Garnatxa Blanca 2012

Charmian

Type of wine/spirit: White Region - Country: D.o. Montsant - Spain - Spain
Valoration: Gold Price: 6-8 €
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Tasting notes of winery's winemaker

Aromatic, well-defined, intense and very pleasant.

TASTING NOTE

Color: CHARMIAN GARNATXA BLANCA has a beautiful, luminous and clean yellow color with lively greenish shades. Nose: Elegantly perfumed, it offers a hint of acacia flowers as well as orange blossom and a touch of citric fruit. Little by little, spicy notes appear as well as smoky oak hints with a touch of vanilla and mineral tones left there by the slate-based soils of the Priorat region. Palate: Lively with a touch of citric fruit, lemon and grapefruit. The wine?s acidity is well balanced, making it long and very pleasant.

WINEMAKING INFORMATION

100% White Grenache.

Vineyards: Over 25 year old vines, planted at altitudes of between 300-450 meters. The white Grenache is a local grape variety in the Priorat region, which almost disappeared a few years ago. Luckily it has been widely replanted and now produces grapes of high quality.

Harvest: The grapes are picked by hand in the early hours of the morning, before it becomes too hot. The grapes are harvested around 15th September.

Climate: Very cold winters with some snowfall followed by hot, dry summers, giving excellent conditions for high quality White Grenache.

Winemaking: The grapes are stemmed and macerated 6 to 8 hours, after 90% of the juice goes to stainless steel tanks and the remaining 10% in French oak barrels. Once fermentation is completed, the juice left in the tanks is left to rest on its lees for 5 months and stirred daily the other 10% aged in oak barrels is stirred once a week. When this process ends, we proceed to the blend, stabilization, filtering and bottling.

Alcohol Content: 13.5º // Total Acidity: 5.7 g/l (TH2) / Residual Sugar: 1 g/l / pH: 3.45

Other awards for this wine/spirit

MEDALLA DE PLATA IWWC2013

4 ESTRELLAS PEÑIN 2014

4 ESTRELLAS PEÑIN 2015