Geographic location: D.O.Apalta / Santa Cruz / Colchagua Valley
Geology / Soil: franc soil with different proportion of granitic rock, sand and clay depending on how close to the hills the block is.
Elevation: 164 mamsl
Climatic conditions: warm summer but fresher autumn and dry autumn, allowing total ripeness with excellent sanitary conditions.
Vine age: 15 years
Varieties:100 % Mourvedre
Harvest date and Tons/Ha.: middle of April / 8-10 ton/ha
Hand harvested; cold maceration for 24 hours; before starting the fermentation a 25% of the juice is removed to enhance the skin contact proportion and concentration of the wine; alcoholic fermentation was done on stainless steel tanks and malolactic fermentation was spontaneous and occurred when wine was already in barrels; third use french oak 500 liters barrels; battonage every 15 days; cold settling before bottling to remove major lees; no filtration at all.
1 year on french oak barrels (500 liters each / third use); at least 3–4 months in bottle before release it.
Alcohol: 13.5°
PH: 3.48
Total Acidity : 5.48g/l (Tartaric)
Sugar: 2.94 g/l
100% organic; suitable for vegans; no filtration, cold stabilization or any fining process previous to bottling.
