Wine Becquer de Autor Crianza 2014 1.5 Liters

Lo­cat­ed on the south of Monte Yer­ga on the sun­ny side of the slopes, the Cues­ta de la Reina Es­tate com­mences at an al­ti­tude of 450 me­ters and as­cends to 800 me­ters. The soils, clayey-cal­care­ous, are very poor and with abun­dance of boul­ders. The es­tate of 120 Hectare has be­longed to the fam­i­ly for four gen­er­a­tions and the fam­i­ly it­self has al­ways cul­ti­vat­ed the vine­yard. The av­er­age age of the vines is over 40 years. Fol­low­ing a metic­u­lous mon­i­tor­ing of the vine­yard, the grapes are har­vest­ed at op­ti­mum ma­tu­ri­ty. The har­vest is done man­u­al­ly by se­lect­ing healthy and ripe grapes and re­ject­ing the bad and de­te­ri­o­rat­ed. The Har­vest was done in mid-Oc­to­ber for both the Tem­pranil­lo and the Gar­nacha grapes. The grapes are col­lect­ed in fruit box­es to avoid any kind of crush­ing.

There were no me­chan­i­cal sys­tems used dur­ing the elab­o­ra­tion pro­cess. This is based on grav­i­ty to avoid dam­ag­ingthe grape. The fer­men­ta­tion took place in stain­lesssteel tanks with au­tochthonous yeasts from thesame vine­yard, con­trol­ling the tem­per­a­ture at 30°C. At the end of fermentations the mac­er­a­tion wasex­tend­ed for 10 days. Once the de­cuvé had tak­enplace, the wine was trans­ferred to fine American and French oak where it aged for 8 months. Therewere 2 rack­ings dur­ing the ag­ing pro­cess. Af­ter amild fil­ter­ing, the wine was bot­tled and remained in the bot­tle cel­lar for 12 months be­fore putting it upfor sale.