La Perdida "O Trancado" Tinto 2021

La Perdida "O Trancado" Tinto 2021O Trancado comes from an old vineyard of the same name which Nacho inherited from his grandmother and recuperated. These ancient Garnacha Tintorera & Menca vines yield less than 1kg of fruit per plant. The grapes are hand harvested and destemmed, fermented with their skins in open top plastic fermenters for about 20 days without temperature control. As fermentation proceeds, Nacho gradually removes the skins until just the must remains about half way

The finish is energetic

The name Antoine Arena is synonymous with Corsican wine

and using Biodynamic practices since 1994

to make a field blend from a black slate soil vineyard near the Portuguese border at 2600 ft

very delicious

caramel or burnt sugar

Iliana Malihin is from Athens but used to summer with her grandfather in Crete

Hybrid grapes offer a chance to develop that relationship in a growing region where that relationship is still being discovered

Everything is pressed with a Coquard basket press and aged in a mix of steel and neutral barrels

January 2023

and the Pippins apples were sourced locally in Corralitos from a heritage orchard

oral and straightforward