Cellar: Cooperativa Falset-Marçà

Capacity: 75cl

Type: Red

Alcohol content: 16%

Tasting Note

Sight: Intense red color.

Smell: Red wine bouquets with Mediterranean herbs that are used during maceration. Tobacco leaves and wood dabs in the background.

Taste: On the palate, it's balanced, Paladar muy equilibrado, it has a bit of sweetness after the astringency of the red wine. A very special and unsual vermouth.

Preparation

It's made of Grenache and Carignan. It macerates with its own skins as in the wine preparation. The result is an aromatic wine wih an intense red color. When the wine is ready, it's filtered and an special infusion of 120 different herbs is added. Then, it will macerate for one year in oak barrels of 500 and 600 liters. The amounts 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 rests for 3 years in large oak vats of 225 liters. No caramel is added. It's bottled little by little to never empty the centennial tanks.

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