Winery:  Bodegas Castaño                                          

Region: D.O. Yecla

Vintage: 2018

Bottle:  50cl.                                             

Grape Varieties: 100% Monastrell

Type:  Barrel-aged Sweet Red Wine

Alcohol Content: 15% Vol

Serving Temperature:  10º - 12º

Production:

Sweet wine elaborated from a selection of overripe grapes from old, unirrigated Monastrell bush vines, with an average age of about 36 years.

Aged in French and American oak barrels for eight months.

Tasting Notes:

An intense and expressive nose displaying comfited black fruit aromas. Smooth and unctuous, comfited plums and dried fruit, figs, honey, and raisins flavours with toasted nuances. Good balance acidity-sweetness and very soft tannins.

BODEGAS CASTAÑO    

Today, the Family Castaño is a highly respected wine producer in Yecla, Murcia, in South Eastern Spain. Founded in 1950, although it did not start elaborating bottled wine until the 1980s. Today, it produces a wide range of high-quality wines at competitive prices, mostly from the local grape variety Monastrell, from its nearly 450 hectares of vineyards spread across four different estates in the D.O. Yecla.