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Vino Montecillo Gran Reserva Selección Especial 2007

Wines that are authentic icons and living history of our winery. Made exclusively in exceptional vintages, those that offer us enormous aging potential. This collection of historic vintages, dating back to 1926, rests in our cellars.
The 2007 vintage was released for the very first time in 2024 after more than 15 years of aging. Only 23,386 bottles of 75 cl were produced.

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Montecillo Gran Reserva 2007

Variety

80% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha , 10% Graciano.

Marked by a calm annual cycle, where winter and summer temperatures were mild in both cases and with an ideal distribution of rainfall. The ripening was slow, with a great day and night temperature contrast, which ensured homogeneity in the vineyards that reached their phenolic and saccharimetric maturity in a very balanced way.

Two Tempranillo vineyards in vaso training, one in Sotés and the other in Fuenmayor, with calcareous clay soils and an average age of 50 years. An old Graciano vineyard in vaso, from the Laguardia area, with ferrous soils. The three vineyards were harvested by hand, in small boxes to be transported to the winery.
Yield: 4,900 kg/ha.

Graduation

13.5 %

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Elaboration

1

The three varietals that make up this wine come from dryland vineyards in Rioja Alta and Rioja Alavesa. The average age of the vineyards is 50 years. Tempranillo comes from vineyards in the areas of Badarán, Fuenmayor, and Sotés. The Graciano vineyard, located in Laguardia and bush-trained, is the youngest at 40 years old. The Garnacha comes from vineyards over 70 years old, located in Medrano, also bush-trained, with a low-productive rootstock.

2

Harvested and processed separately, the three varieties fermented in small-capacity underground cement tanks. Very long macerations to extract all their identity and structure, with prior bleeding in the Garnacha and Tempranillo.

3

Malolactic fermentation in cement tanks and, after a cleaning rack, they were transferred to the barrels.

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Breeding

1

Aged for 40 months in French oak (85%) and American oak (15%) barrels.

2

After tasting each variety and selecting the final blend, the wine was bottled to be aged in bottle. The 23,386 bottles were hand-piled in the winery's underground cellars, protected from stress and changes in temperature and humidity. After 12 years, the wine showed its full potential and was ready to be released to the market.

Color

A medium-low robe wine, with a luminous cherry red color and a reddish-orange rim.

Smells

On the nose, it is seductive and shy at first, with aromas of sweet wood and clear notes of vanilla, with an incomparable honesty over a background of red licorice. Its intensity increases as we swirl the glass, revealing cocoa and dried apricots, with a clear and sweet candied fruit character.

Taste

On the palate, its sweet tannin dominates the entrance, tremendously pleasant in its journey across the palate. Finesse and delicacy are the weapons of seduction of this wine, which still shows a very well-preserved fruit and unforgettable notes of noble wood.

Wine analytics

Alcohol

13.5 vol

Residual sugar

1,7 g/l

Acidity

5,5 g/l

pH

3.53

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