Name: PHINCA DURMIENTE
SKU: 4655
Availability: InStock

PHINCA DURMIENTE

RM413.00

Region: Salamanca, Spain
ABV: 12.5%
Grape Varietal: 100% Rufete Blanco
Annual Production: 900 – 1,200 Bottles

Tasting Note: A soft and impressively styled wine. Ripe, pristine dark cherries and chocolate on the nose lead into a carefully crafted luxuriously flavored palate. Complex and elegant with notes of herbs and spice. Fine tannins and understand oak.

Starting with just three hectares in 1999, David Sampedro, a vigneron from Elvillar in Rioja Alavesa, converted his vineyards to organic farming, revealing a unique side of Rioja. Today, he and his wife Melanie manage 17 hectares of certified organic and biodynamic (Demeter) Estate vineyards, cultivated exclusively by plow-horse. In 2016, they built a sustainable, solar-powered, off-grid winery near their village. David’s forward-thinking vision, focused on biodynamics and expressing the limestone soils and old, high-altitude vines of Elvillar, sets him apart in the region.

Sourced from White Rufete vines from the vineyards of the granitic soils of “Sierra de Francia” mountains and the slate “Sierra de Quilamas” mountains. Hand harvested. Each grape was destemmed and selected by hand. The grapes are then foot crushed, and the fermentation starts with native yeast. After fermentation the wine is pressed and moved to 500 L French oak barrels. We work with the lees for the first 6 months by rolling the barrels (battonage). The wine spends 2 years in oak.