Bodegas Añadas

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2001 CARE Bancales

Type: Aged red

Tasting Notes: Attractive deep, bright cherry red color with purple rim. Clean and powerful aromas, revealing ripe fruit with spice / licorice undertones and notes of roses. The meaty palate offers tobacco and spicy flavors with touches of wood balanced by a wonderful tannic structure. The finish is powerful and elegant with delicious fruit and toasty hints. Decanting is recommended.

Other Notes: Care has been entirely elaborated with grapes of exhaustively controlled old vineyards from a blend of 65% Garnacha, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon. The Garnacha is 70-80 years old and the Cabernet Sauvignon is 25-30 years old (the oldest vineyards of this grape variety in the D.O.Cariñena and the whole Aragón region). Aged 13 months in 60% American oak barrels (Kentucky forests), and 40% in French oak barrels (Allier forests).

The grapes used in the making of this wine are rigorously controlled for hygiene standards, quality, acid content and ph value and are harvested in the exact ripening moment. Before fermentation takes place they macerate for 6 days at 10ºC. Alcoholic fermentation occurs in stainless steel conical shaped tanks at controlled temperature up to 29ºC. After the alcoholic fermentation, the wine macerates for 20 days with skins. Malolactic fermentation then happens in new small barrels.