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Valdeorras
Los Carismáticos
75cl bottle - 2022
Los Carismáticos is a Merenzao wine over 50 years old, grown on the Los Carismáticos estate in Val do Bibei. It is made with manual harvest and spontaneous fermentation in foudre, maintaining a sustainable viticulture. This wine, with a delicate profile and low extraction, stands out for its elegance and reminiscences of traditional wines of the region.
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Production Zone
Valdeorras
Type of wine
Red
Winery
Virgen del Galir
Aging
Other Aging
Format
75cl
Grape variety used
Merenzao: 100%
Alcohol content
12,8%
Characteristics of the vineyard
The Merenzao grapes come from our 0.3 ha Los Carismáticos estate, located on the southern slope of Val do Bibei, in the northern part of Valdeorras, in the village of As Ermitas. It is an amphitheater-shaped estate with sandy soil formed by decomposed granite, poor and shallow and all kinds of climatic exposures.
Its terraces were built in stone by hand in the 19th century. The vineyard is more than 50 years old. Due to the orography of the terrain, the only way to work the soil is manually or with animals.
Sustainable viticulture is carried out.
Winemaking characteristics
Manual harvesting in 15 kg. boxes, selection of the grapes and spontaneous fermentation in 4 500-litre casks, whole cluster and eliminating the stems progressively.
Harvest data
A vintage marked by high temperatures and scarce rainfall. Only in September there was some rainfall that balanced the ripening of the grapes.
The plant health of the grapes was exceptional due to a summer without disease problems.
The high temperatures and low humidity caused a delay in the vegetative cycle and ripening of the grapes, reaching their cutting time in the last week of September.
Despite the hot summer, alcohol levels are very similar to 2021
Los Carismáticos, due to its higher altitude and the mesoclimate of the area, with milder daytime temperatures and cooler nighttime temperatures, marked differences with respect to the rest. This was not the case for the quantity of grapes harvested, which unfortunately was slightly lower than last year, approximately 10% less.
Tasting notes
Los Carismáticos recovers a wine and a reviled variety, the merenzao, a wine that the elders tell you about as the tastiest; and the one they used to select to make at home for their own consumption. More delicate than the rest of the region's reds, with little extraction and intervention. Not at all exuberant. Also known as black godello, Trousseau and Bastardo.
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