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Wine tasting:

Winery:

We keep manufacturing on rented premises, where we own the silos, the barrels and all the equipment needed to continue elaborating in a traditional and respectful way the grapes and our wine, trying to emulate our ancestors.

Labeling:

Technical information:

Wine name and harvest year:

Sofros 2017.

Designation of origin:

D.O. Toro.

Technical manager:

Ramiro Carbajo del Río.

Production:

10.500 bottles.

Viticulture:

Made with tinta de toro grape from very gently cared vineyards of 5 hectares, located in a village called Morales de Toro in the territorial región of Zamora, at 705 metres of altitude.

Soil:

Sediments of sandstones, clays and limestones, with boulders on surface. Low content of organic material and an unbalanced on acidit and pH.

Vineyard age:

90 years.

Pruning system:

Goblet.

Grape harvest:

10th of October, harvested in 15kgs boxes.

Grape variety:

Tinta de Toro.

Packaging:

Format:

6 bottles on cardboard box.

Pre-fermentation process:

Duration:

5 days.

Temperature:

5 °C.

Alcoholic fermentation:

Duration:

10 days with native yeasts.

Temperature:

At 25 ºC reaching up to 30 ºC during some hours.

Malolactic fermentation:

Barrels.

In new French oak barrels with inoculation of lactic bacteria.

Maturing in casks:

Capacity:

225 liters.

Moment of usage:

New barrels, we change them every year.

Type:

French oak 100 %.

Grain size:

Very fine.

Roast:

Medium.

Aging:

15 months.

Switches:

Five.

Physical-Chemical properties:

Alcoholic strength by volume:

14,5 % vol.

Total acidity content:

5,6 g/l

Residual sugar:

<2 g/l.

pH:

3,6.

Clarification:

Without clarifying.

Filtration:

No filtration.