A red wine that contains the selection of the best plots of the vineyards. The varietals are made separately in open barrels where an amount of 170 kg of grapes is vinified in each one.
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Tasting notes: | A wine of great colour, with an intense and spicy nose and voluminous on the palate. |
Winemaker notes: | Para ser bebido inmediatamente o mantener durante 10 años. |
Recommendations: | Temperature 16 - 18 ºC |
Food Pairing: | The perfect companion for meat dishes such as grilled beef or poultry such as wild duck. |
Kind of wine: | Red Wine. |
Grape Varieties: | 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 60% Merlot, 5% Malbec, 15% Garnacha, 10% Syrah. |
Vintage: | 2012 |
Ageing: | The varieties separately to 70% new French oak barrels, 30% one use. The wine spends about 14 months with its varieties separately and with its fine lees. And after blending, they spend another 4-6 months in barrels. |
Alcohol: | 14% vol |
Formats: | 0,75L |
Soils: | Light and rocky soils, rich in minerals that give the wine a particular and personal aromatic richness. |
Grape harvest: | Manual |
It began his journey with the dream of creating a new, different and surprising wine. He started from a land that no one believed in: poor, arid but rich in minerals, where the strain suffered. It implanted new strains, then not authorized, from the best French producing areas, which today makes it have some of the oldest strains of varieties as noble as Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, etc...
During these more than 30 years, Bodegas Viña Magaña has managed to acquire more than 100 hectares of its own vineyard, from which the grapes for all its wines come, and a stock of between 900 and 1,000 French oak barrels.
For the production of its wines, it has modern facilities owned by the prestigious Navarrese architect, Rafael Moneo.
Its brands -Viña Magaña, Barón de Magaña, Dignus, Torcas and finally Calchetas-, are present in the commercial offer and in haute cuisine in more than 30 countries around the world and have been chosen by such prominent institutions and companies as the Royal House, the Iberia airline, the Sheraton and Intercontinental hotel chains, or personalities as important as the Dalai-Lama, during his stay in Spain; or Indurain to celebrate his victories in the Tour de France.