Descrição

El Calado del Espino es el nuevo vino de José Gil y Vicky Fernández. Se trata de un blanco riojano elaborado exclusivamente con uva de la variedad Viura procedente en su mayoría de un viñedo situado en Labastida. Como curiosidad, parte del vino fermenta en barricas de roble francés de 500 litros y el resto en damajuanas de 54 litros. Tiene una producción muy limitada.

Informações de produto

A adega
Jose Gil Vigneron
Tipo
Branco fermentado em barrica
Colheita
2023
Álcool
13.0% vol.
Produção
1.780 botellas
Variedade
100% Viura
Origem
Rioja

Vinha e preparação

Descrição
Viñedo situado mayoritariamente en Labastida, concretamente en la zona de San Ginés. Otra parte de la uva procede del Bardallo, en San Vicente de la Sonsierra.
Solo
Limoso con piedras calcáreas.
Colheita
Vendimia manual en cajones de 250 kilogramos.
Vinificação
Un 70% del vino aproximadamente fermenta en barricas de roble francés de 500 litros, y el 30% restante en damajuanas de 54 litros.
Envelhecimento
Crianza de 12 meses.

Avaliação dos peritos

James Suckling:

Fresh, lightly creamy and quite intense on the nose with a touch of wasabi and minerals to the fruit. Medium- to full-bodied with good tension and acidity as well as roundness. Long and nicely generous at the end. Viura from Labastida. 13% alcohol. Drink now or hold.

The Wine Advocate:

The 2023 El Calado del Espino is their third vintage of this white, produced with Viura grapes from two plots, one in San Vicente and a little bit from one in Labastida; one plot is 50 years old and the other is 80 years old on limestone-rich soils. The whole clusters were pressed in a pneumatic press and fermented in their underground cave in new and used 500-liter barrels and some 54-liter glass demijohns. It matured in those fermentation vessels for 11 months. It was the first year they used the pneumatic press and pressed the full clusters and only waited 24 hours to let the must settle. The wine smells of wet stones, from the soils of El Bardallo, which are very shallow and the rock is very close to the surface. It's aromatic with notes of dry flowers and herbs, a little bit of pollen and chamomile, and the palate is sharper and more balanced than the 2022. It has contained ripeness and 13% alcohol. A total of 1,780 individually numbered bottles were produced.