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Verdejo

Organic Wine 2022 100% verdejo

Rueda / verdejo / 2022
Rueda, our organic verdejo

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Rippa Dorii Rueda Organic Wine Verdejo

Untamed nature

We select grapes from our own, organically-certified vineyards from different districts of the DO Rueda in which poor soils predominate. We also include grapes from old vines with very low yields, over sixty years’ old and with varying planting densities. Part of the fermentation is in casks and this is blended in the final coupage of the wine, making its tannins fine and polished. The rest is fermented in vats and the stirring of the lees is very gentle to achieve very complex aromas, volume and unctuosity.

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Viticulture

We select grapes from our own “certified-organic” vineyards from different zones of the DO Rueda appellation where the poor, gravelly soils dominate, with major outcrops of limestone at medium and high altitudes. We also include grapes from old vines with very low yields, over sixty years´old and with varying planting densities.

Harvest 2022

The 2022 harvest in our Rueda vineyards stretched over a much longer time than in previous seasons due to rainfall at the end of the cycle, causing stop-start harvesting during the campaign. The year was very hot and dry, but the September rains helped the plants to extract the necessary nutrients from the soil and then achieve phenolic and alcoholic ripening with the máximum balance. This proved vital for bringing us fresh musts with just the right acidity and medium/high alcoholic strength. In addition, the state of health of the clusters was very high. This all bodes well for wines with a lot of body and
lots of backbone.

Elaboration

Natural débourbage and fermented with its own lees

The grapes are harvested during the night to achieve maximum protection of the aromas of the berries. Once in the winery, the temperature is further reduced and the grapes are very gently pressed, with their skins, at cool temperatures, to get the deepest, most richly nuanced transfer of aromas. Clarification is natural and at cold temperatures. The spontaneous fermentation also starts out cold with the must clean through decanting off, with no use of filters or other manipulation. In addition, part of the fermentation takes place in barrels before the final blending of the wine, which makes its tannins fine and polished.

Grape varieties

Verdejo single grape.

Files

Tasting notes 2022 / pdf
Tasting notes 2021 / pdf
Rippa Dorii Rueda Organic Wine Verdejo 2021

Tasting

Colour.

Straw yellow, with golden hues and greenish glints.

Aroma.

High intensity and elegance, deep, fresh and complex, with fragrant notes of fennel, mountain herbs and underlying mineral and balsamic aromas coming through.

Taste.

An initial sensation of fresh fruit which appears in the flavoursome atatck with salty touches. It is long, intense and leaves the characteristic, slightly bitter note of verdejo.

Alcohol.

13,5 % Alc. by Vol.

Serving and storage temperature.

Best served at 7-11ºC