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MANDÓN
Vintage: 2021
Varieties: 100% Mandón
Vineyard: Located between 650 and 700 meters of altitude
Soils: Granite and sandy soils from the alteration of the bedrock.
Alcohol content: 14% vol.
Harvest: November 2, 2021
Aging: Part in new French oak barrels for 8 months and part in a stainless steel tank for the same months.
Bottling date: July 2022
Production: 4,000 bottles
Variety Characteristics:
It is a variety of truncated cone-shaped, compact and homogeneous clusters. It offers high quality wines with completely healthy, delicate and very different clusters, always marking singularities unknown to the general public of wine. This variety has been present in Arribes for decades and decades, its cultivation was abandoned due to its late maturation, veraison beginning in many cases in September, this allows it to arrive in perfect health conditions at the end of October and even November for its vintage. Perfectly adapted to our Arribes terroir, it is totally different from its namesake in the Balearic Islands, making Bodegas Pascual Fernández the only one outside of the Spanish Levante and the Balearic Islands to produce this wonder.
Tasting Note:
Intense and luminous color, with very present polyphenols. At first it is a bit closed, but immediately it is discovered and it is intense, reminiscent of the fermented fruit of the vintage. The nose is exuberant, very singular, with a dry floral aroma, reminiscent of a bouquet of varied fruit aromas such as blueberry. On the palate it is very fleshy, with a very present acidity but very well integrated with the tannin, leaving a velvety mouthfeel and a cocoa aftertaste.
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BRUÑAL
Vintage: 2020
Varieties: 100% Bruñal
Vineyard: Located between 650 and 700 meters of altitude
Soils: Granite and sandy from the alteration of the parent rock
Alcohol content: 14.5% vol.
Harvest: October 9, 2020
Ageing: Part in new French oak barrels for 8 months and part in a stainless steel tank for the same months.
Bottling date: July 2021
Production: 3,400 bottles
Vinification:
Manual harvest in boxes of 12 kilos, selection made in the vineyard, and again selected at the reception table. Destemming and soft crushing, with controlled fermentation at 25º in small stainless steel tanks. The wine does not undergo Malolactic Fermentation and part is aged in new French oak barrels and part in small stainless steel tanks with its fine lees.
The barrels remain at a constant temperature of 12º and 80% humidity in centennial underground cellars, while the deposits remain at the same temperature of 14º in a controlled manner.
Tasting Note:
Ruby Red Color, characteristic of the variety, bright and elegant as well as intense and attractive. On the nose it transmits the exuberance that it will give us with very fine and elegant aromas of moss and fresh forest, with touches and evidence of wild fruits. And on the palate, it confirms the elegance, a meaty wine with very present but fine tannins, soft and with a very long sensation at the end of the mouth. Very Fresh, with clear, crisp evidence of fruit. A very sweet and "addictive" wine, very friendly on the nose and mouth and that does not let you stop tasting it.
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1857 SELECCIÓN DE VIÑAS VIEJAS
Vintage: 2021
Varieties: Bruñal, Mandón, Tinta Madrid, Bastardillo Chico, Mencía, Gajo Arroba and Juan García.
Vineyard: Located between 650 and 700 meters of altitude.
Soils: Granite and sandy soils from the alteration of the bedrock.
Alcohol content: 14% vol.
Harvest: November 2, 2021
Aging: Part in new French oak barrels for 8 months and part in a stainless steel tank for the same months.
Bottling date: July 2022
Production: 4,000 bottles
Our Essence:
Made from grapes from 1857 ancestral vines located in the Villa del Vino, Fermoselle, in the D.O. Arribes. These grapes come from unique varieties that reach their maximum splendor here, unleashing an unlimited explosion of aromas and incomparable flavors.
Siete Peldaños represents a commitment of deep RESPECT for the land and our ancestors. When conceiving our project to create excellent wines, we always had the intention of recovering the rich history and winemaking tradition that has been part of this land for centuries.
Our essence lies in listening and learning from the land and from those men and women who have coexisted in harmony for generations, leaving us an exceptional land. In this land full of old vineyards, we work together with numerous viticulturists to explore their vineyards, selecting those that would be the base of our wines. We opted for the vines that showed the fullness of these minority varieties, contributing diversity to a wine panorama of incalculable value. However, we did not stop there. We carefully chose the vines from each old vineyard that reached the end of the vegetative cycle in optimal conditions. These vines managed to bring the clusters to perfect maturation, at a point where the aromas and flavors acquired an incomparable singularity. We flagged these culminating pleasure strains and added them to a "collection" honoring this land. This meticulous process was repeated on numerous plots, encompassing all the minority and historic varieties we found. We do not follow a pre-established criterion, but we let the land guide our actions, allowing the proportions to define themselves and the ripening of each vine to be dictated by nature itself.
Tasting Note:
Intense and luminous color, with very present polyphenols. At first, it is a bit closed, but immediately it is discovered, and it is intense, reminiscent of the fermented fruit of the vintage. The nose is exuberant, very singular, with a dry floral aroma, reminiscent of a bouquet of varied fruit aromas such as blueberry. On the palate it is very meaty, with a very present acidity but very well integrated with the tannin, leaving a velvety mouthfeel and a cocoa aftertaste.
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JUAN GARCÍA
Vintage: 2021
Varieties: 100% Juan García
Vineyard: Small plots with vineyards between 60 and 10 years old, located between 650 and 750 meters altitude.
Soils: Granite and sandy, originating from the alteration of the bedrock.
Alcohol content: 14.5% vol.
Harvest: October 8, 2021
Bottling date: July 2022
Production: 1,400 bottles
Vinification:
The harvest is carried out at the right moment of maturation, plot by plot, carrying out pre-fermentation macerations at low temperatures until the last plot is harvested. With this grape, the moment chosen is of the utmost importance, being a variety that in 24 hours can completely change its ripening state. Fermentation at a controlled temperature takes place in small stainless steel tanks.
Tasting Note:
Also known in the Arribes territory as Malvasía Tinta. Purple-red in color, not very intense, but bright, it is a wine from a variety that is the DNA of Arribes, cold as the granite of the soil. On the nose it reveals the intensity of the aromas of red fruits, sweet berries, very fresh, the elegance of a wine with little extraction is felt, with light tannins that end with a long finish of spices, such as cloves and white pepper.
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GARNACHA
Vintage: 2020
Varieties: 100% Grenache
Vineyard: Old vineyards located between 650 and 750 meters altitude.
Alcohol content: 12.5% vol.
Harvest: October 11, 2020
Aging: On its fine lees for 5 months
Bottling date: April 2021
Release to the market: July 2021
Production: 3,300 bottles
Vinification:
The harvest is carried out at the right moment of maturation, so that the grapes can offer their full potential. Exhaustive manual harvest in boxes of 12 kilos, with manual selection of bunches in the vineyard and again selected at the reception in the winery. Destemmed and gently squeezed, with fermentation at a controlled temperature in small stainless steel tanks. The wine ages partly in new French oak barrels and partly with its fine lees in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature of 14ºC and 80% humidity in our hundred-year-old underground cellars.
Tasting Note:
Intense and persistent cherry red colour, which denotes the presence, in old vines, of loose vines of Garnacha Tintorera that add that power and vividness of color that it has. On the nose, the light touch of vanilla immediately jumps out, accompanied by chocolate, very smooth and perfectly blended with the aromas of fruit, ripe plum and flowers, floral shrubs. In the mouth, the acidity it presents stands out, very well integrated into the wine, which makes it a very balanced and elegant wine, with body and structure, but not at all heavy, maintaining the freshness of the fruit that is very present, robust but delicate tannins. The finish is spicy (black pepper).
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TEMPRANILLO
Vintage: 2020
Varieties: 100% Tempranillo
Vineyard: Located in Fermoselle at 680 meters of altitude
Soils:Granite and sandy, originating from the alteration of the bedrock.
Alcohol content: 14.5% vol.
Harvest: October 1, 2020
Aging: 7 months in French oak barrels and stainless steel tanks.
Bottling date: July 2021
Production: 3,300 bottles
Vinification:
The harvest is carried out at the right moment of maturation, in boxes of 12 kilos. On this occasion on October 1, at which time it presented perfect maturation. The grapes presented a perfect state of clusters and grapes, also carrying out manual selection at the reception in the winery. Fermentation in small stainless steel tanks and controlled aging underground, in French oak barrels, which gives it the necessary structure and body to discover the originality of Tempranillo in the D.O. Arribes.
Tasting Note:
Intense red color with violet edges, very lively and expressive. The nose is intense and clear, red fruits, strawberries, raspberries. On the palate, its best characteristic stands out once again, the fruit as the true queen of all flavors, fills the entire mouth, refreshes it and envelops it with an endless persistence, but tremendously elegant. Present, intense, dry tannins that give a fascinating complexity to this Tempranillo that undoubtedly surprises.
