Pico Ferreira

César Márquez Pérez · Bierzo, Spain

A single vineyard wine elegant and complex, displaying ripe black fruits, cayenne pepper, dried violet, and gunpowder notes.

Farming
Minimal intervention

Harvest type
Hand harvested

Varietal
85% Mencia, 10% Alicante Bouschet, 5% white grapes and other varieties. The vineyard
contemplates a mixture of up to 12 varieties.

Age of Vineyard
Planted in 1908

Vessel
12 months in French oak barrels with 5 uses and 400 liters

Vineyard Yield
2,000-3,000 kg/ha

Soil Type
Slate

Annual Production
1,198 bottles

Vinification
Fermentation is carried out in open containers for 24 days, with 50% whole cluster. The grapes are gently stepped on, so that a part of the skins remain whole in the fermentation, which is carried out spontaneously with wild yeast. The maceration was carried out for 24 days, in which the work consisted of sinking daily the cap manually, without breaking it. After the bleeding and pressing is done, we let it settle for 7 days. After this, it is put into two 500 liter barrels and left to stand for 1 year.