Marqués de Cáceres - Antea Edición Limitada | Spanish White Wine

VINEYARDS AND YIELDS
This wine is a result of bringing together two of the most interesting white Rioja varieties: Viura vieja and Tempranillo Blanco. Plots of old vines of viura merged with old red vineyards that bring great structure and elegance and a small percentage of the indigenous Tempranillo Blanco variety. This offers acidity, freshness, vivacity and an excellent capacity for aging.

TERRAIN
Primarily clay soil–calcareous, generally with limestone veins, since the white vines were usually planted in ‘cogotes’,or elevated areas that do not contain many plots. The rest of the plot is destined to red varieties.

VINIFICATION
Cooling of the grape and cold maceration for a few hours. Very light pressing in a small static press. Cleaning of the grape juice by decantation in order to start the alcoholic fermentation to draw out the lees in new French oak barrels. Bâtonnage carried out several times per week during the following months, therefore maintaining the fine lees in suspension and obtaining complexity, elegance and becoming unctuous, respecting in turn the vivacity of the fruit.