TOMÀS CUSINÉ

Tomás Cusiné

Tomas Cusiné was founded in 2003. During these years, we gained experience in the quest for the desired wines. We have had many years of hard work while persisting in the philosophy of quality winemaking. We work in the vineyards while gave emphasis to the brand and diversity and consistency to the wines. All, this effort and passion has been possible due to a committed team of people that has helped to achieve the objectives set in the beginning and to consolidate Tomàs Cusiné as a prestigious and reliable winery.

Tomàs Cusiné has worked since the beginning with a very open mind to the world, managing to introduce their wines in more than thirty different countries. Scores and ratings of great consistency have been issued by critics over the years. All the wines have been highly appreciated for their personality, subtlety and pleasantness, showing its own character and reflecting the landscape and the soil where the vines are grown.

Year after year, the 30 hectares of mountain vineyards planted over 700 meters high have been deepening its roots into the earth. The vineyards have balanced their vegetation. Now they produce very good grapes with excellent qualities that facilitate the winemaking and improve the wines as well as ensure the future of the project.

Location

The winery Tomàs Cusiné is located in the village of El Vilosell, at the southern end of the Designation of Origin Costers del Segre, within the sub-area of Les Garrigues, in the province of Lleida, growing zone of highest elevation in Catalunya, Spain.

Soil

The state is located on the north side of the mountain range known as La llena, the last of the Montsant mountain range, bordered on the south by the Tarragona region, La Conca de Barbera and Priorat.

The state lies on a very rugged terrain. It has many small plots of vineyards planted between oaks forests, pines and junipers. All parcels of vines have slope and different exposures to the sun, mostly northeast. The soil has calcareous compositions with varying amounts of gravel, with good permeability and freshness.

Wineyard

The altitude of the vineyards, the persistent westerly winds during the day time and evening winds named marinade, the day-night temperature contrast and year rainfall between 380 and 600l forms a cold climate that ensures slow ripening of the grapes, with late harvest that helps good acidity, thick skins, soft tannins and great color intensity in the wines.

They fertilize organically our vineyards in order to get a green and sustainable crop. They plow between strains and leave the soil with vegetation cover and we do an intense vegetative management. They value all architectural elements of rural tradition like dry stone walls, and take care of landscape and forest, with their own forest management plan. The property is a model that distills the philosophy of the winery.

Careful monitoring of the grapes before harvest and in order to obtain the perfect maturity are vital in the process. The balance between acidity, alcohol, maturity of the skins and seeds, defines the work to be carried in the cellar for each of the varieties, in order to obtain each one of our wines.

Winemaking

After going through the process of the sorting table, the grapes are cooled macerated in order to keep the fruit and freshness. It is followed by a slow fermentation at low temperature.

After going through the process of the sorting table, the grapes are cooled macerated in order to keep the fruit and freshness. It is followed by a slow fermentation at low temperature.

Constant monitoring of the process and interaction with the musts while fermenting is important. Avoiding excessive tannin extraction in order to get elegant, complex, fresh and long lasting wines is part of the philosophy. The wines made the malolactic fermentation in cement underground and then aged in best fine grain French oak barrels of 225 and 500 liters.

After ten crops, we shall insist on our attitude of passionate demand to achieve excellence in the development of what we call conscious wines.

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