Bobos Finca Casa La Borracha 2020

Description

Production Area
Protected Designation of Origin Utiel-Requena. Continental climate with Mediterranean influences. Calcareous-clay soils.
Variety
100% Bobal.
Winemaking
This wine is made exclusively from the Bobal variety, selected from old low production vines cultivated for more than 80 years in the same land where Bodegas Hispano+Suizas is located.
80 years in the same land where Bodegas Hispano+Suizas is located.
This wine is a different Bobal and that is why we wanted to call it Bobos, which is a synonym for Bobal and Finca Casa la Borracha is the old Bobal estate where Bodegas Hispano+Suizas is located today.
We select the best grapes from low production vines from our own old Bobal vines, with a planting density of 1,600 plants per hectare.
of 1,600 plants per hectare.
The grapes are harvested in special boxes of 15 kg each. The grapes are only harvested in the morning to maintain a good temperature in the grapes until they reach the winery. Once at the winery, the boxes full of grapes are placed in a cold room, keeping the grapes at -10 °C.
We select box by box and proceed to destemming and vatting in new American oak barrels with a capacity of 400 litres, where we have previously removed the bottom of the grapes.
previously we have removed the bottom of the barrel itself.
We introduce a water-cooled stainless steel plate into each barrel for cold maceration at 8 °C . We sink the cap daily, barrel by barrel.
the cap, barrel by barrel, by hand, and once fermentation has started we close the cooling water so that the barrel itself can reach the fermenting
during fermentation at a maximum temperature of 26 °C .
After 15 days, we devat the wine on the pneumatic press to perform a light pressing of no more than 0.5 bar. The resulting wine is aged for a minimum of 10 months in new 300-litre French Allier oak barrels and bottled and lightly filtered.
Consumer advice
Serve at 16-18 °C. Any precipitate that may be seen in the wine is natural, as we try to produce the wine with as little filtration as possible in order to fully appreciate all its quality.