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Castillo De La Pena - Gran Reserva 2002
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Blend
40% Cabernet Sauvignon
60% Garnacha - Country Spain
- Region Aragon
- Appellation Campo De Borja
- UPC 0 15643 24971 6
Food pairing
Excellent with red meats, such as beef and venison. Also great with mature cheeses and richly flavoured stews and casseroles.
Tasting notes
Cherry-red in colour with some more russet tones. On the nose, there are notes of fresh spice with rich, ripe forest fruit aromas, which are underpinned, but not overpowered by a smooth and toasty oakiness imparted by the oak barrels. In the mouth, the wine is silken in texture, round and well-structured. The tannins are soft and well balanced with the acidity. The aftertaste is long and pleasant.
Wine-making
The wine of our oldest Garnacha vineyard was blended with that of our Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard, which lies slightly higher up on the slopes of the Moncayo foothills. All our grapes were hand-picked in the latter half of October and placed on the sorting table where
Susana Ruberte selected the finest grapes for Castillo de la Pena. The musts from the first
pressing of the grapes were fermented slowly at a very low temperature in stainless steel tanks, allowing us to preserve and develop the natural fruit-driven vibrancy of our local grapes. After blending, the young wine was placed in 225 litre French oak barrels where the aging process began.
Ageing
Our 500 year-old ageing cellar was cut deep into the mountain by our ancestors and it now houses the French and American oak barrels used to age Ermita de San Lorenzo Gran Reserva. The wine was aged in 225L French oak casks for 36 months before being transferred to larger oak barrels to continue this process. After bottling, the wine laid down prior to market release.
Soils
Unusually dry, limestone soils with some clay, producing Borja's characteristically small, bush-like vines.
Vineyard
The oldest vines were planted by Senor Ruberte in 1958 at a density of around 2,000 vines per hectare. Situated at altitude in the foothills of the Moncayo Mountain, our vineyardS benefit from a unique micro8climate with long, hot summers and fiercely cold and dry winters; conditions in which the native grapes of D.O. Campo de Borja have evolved to flourish.
