Winery: Enrique Mendoza Viticultor                              

Region: D.O. Alicante

Vintage: 2016                                                                               

Bottle:  75 cl                                                    

Grape Varieties: 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot and 15% Syrah

 Type: Red Wine barrel aged

Alcohol Volume:  14.5%

Serving Temperature:  16º - 18º

Production: Since the end of the 70’s Enrique Mendoza has been making wines from his own vineyard, in Finca Chaconero, situated in Villena (Alicante) where the plants are growing with an environmental friendly technique, without using herbicides or insecticides. The Santa Rosa is the winery’s flag-ship wine, made from a cuvee of selected low-yielding grapes. It has fermented at 28ºC with frequent and daily over-pumping. Aged during 16 months in new French oak Allier barrels.   www.bodegasmendoza.com

Tasting Notes:  The wine is wonderful broad, complex and rich with structure and balance. Mineral, spicy with notes of herbal and floral notes, well- marked rounded tannins and a long after taste with toasted and slight smoked touches.

Notes: Drink over the next 5 – 6 years.