OSSIAN

A rainy, mi ld winter led to a warm Apri l that gave way to budbreak in early May. A severe frost in late Apri l resulted in a lower yield, then temperatures went up al lowing vines to develop although the vine cycle was delayed. July and August were hot although nights were pretty cool. Heavy rainfal l and warm night temperatures in September al lowed diseases to spread resulting in an even lower yield. Harvest started in October when clusters reached optimum maturity. Our harvest was very selective due to the year we had gone through and we only used the grapes which l ived up to our high qual ity standards.

100% Verdejo Varietal, pre-phyl loxera 100 year old vines, ungrafted root -stock. The grapes come from our own 19 hectare vineyards in Nieva (Segovia). Certified Organic Farming (without synthetic ferti l izers, herbicides or pesticides of any kind) in addition to our own vineyards we oversee another 17 hectares, also ungrafted.

The grapes are handpicked and carried to the winery in 15 kg crates. Once at the winery the grapes are thoroughly sorted on the conveyor belt. The grapes are whole-cluster pressed, non-destemmed, using only free run juice. Indigenous yeast fermentation. After alcoholic fermentation the wine remained in French oak barrels-25% new. 35% of one wine and 40%of two wine- for complete wine´s aging of nine month in Burgundian style, with “batonnage” on its lees.