Cellar: Cooperativa Falset-Marçà

Capacity: 75cl.

Type: White

Alcohol content: 16%

Tasting Note

Sight: Intense amber color, clear and bright with mahogany spots.

Smell: It has powerful Mediterranean dried herbs such as rosemary, thyme and wild fennel. Also, it has hints of eucalyptus, tobacco leaves and a mixture of aromatic herbs used during the maceration. In the background, there are wood, wet soil, truffle and honey.

Taste: On the palate, it's balanced with sweetness and a sublime contrast between aicidty and bitterness. It's an unusual vermouth.

Preparation

This vermouth is made of White Grenache and Macabeo grapes. Fermentation with its own skins as in the wine production. The result is an aromatic wine with a pale golden yellow color. When the wine is ready, it's filtered and a special infusion of 120 different herbs are added. Then, it will macerate for more than a year in oak barrels of 500 and 600 liters. The amount and components of the infusion is an identical preparation of the original recipe that the cellar has been used since 1919. Then, this infusion is added to the wine basis in suitable amounts, the sweetness is corrected and it rest for 3 years in large and old oak vats. It's bottled little by little to never empty the centennial tanks. The vermouth will rest most of the time in oak vats that have more than 100 years.

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