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Aire de Protos Rosé2024

ROSE WINE

PUBLIC
August 2025
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Aire de Protos Rosé label
  • Producer Protos
  • Blend 25% Garnacha
    60% Tempranillo
    15% Verdejo
  • Country Spain
  • Region Castilla Y Leon
  • Appellation Cigales
  • UPC 0 15643 57438 2

Reviews

Decanter 90

A pale, fruit-forward rose, with a luscious core of ripe white orchard fruit covered in cranberry juice and liberally topped with lime zest. The latter, along with a touch of pink grapefruit on the back palate contributes liveliness and freshness, offsetting the weighty pear and melon on the mid-palate. Touches of fresh grass and fennel add a herbal nuance.

by IS, Decanter , 2025

Vinous Media 91

The 2024 Rose Aire blends 50% Tempranillo, 30% Garnacha and 10% Albillo with 10% Verdejo and Viura from Cigales. Pale pink in hue, it offers delicate aromas of rose and cherry, with a hint of strawberry and peach. The palate is light, fresh and creamy in texture, finishing with clarity and flavor.

by JH, Vinous Media , 2025

Technical Details

Food pairing

Perfect to pair with light meals like salad and gazpacho, Asiatic dishes (sushi, dim sum, Vietnamese rolls), Arabic meals (couscous, mezze hummus). Also great with tuna, anchovies, prawns, risotto and pasta.

History

Protos, which comes from the Greek word for "FIRST", has the pride and the privilege of having found maturity and ease in the best and the foremost of the wineries in the area and of having been a recognized trademark all this time.
In 1927, boldness and the love a group of local vine growers felt for the land achieved the union of their best efforts, creating the Winery, the Foremost in the Ribera. A project for the future that has not only reached our days intact, it has grown and multiplies year by year and has taken its name proudly to the highest international levels.
The 30s represented its definite settlement at the international level. The 1929 World Exposition in Barcelona gave a particularly strong impulse to this tendency, awarding Gold Medals to its red wines.

Tasting Notes

The Aire de Protos Rosé has an incredible pale rose color with blue tints. The nose is delicate and open with red and white fruit aromas and floral notes. This rosé has great personality and complexity. This wine is silky and tempting. Fresh and round with good volume, fruit-forward with a lingering aftertaste.

Vinification

All of the grapes were hand harvested early in the morning to preserve the freshness. The extraction is done by crushing and “bleeding” the grapes and the juice for 4 hours without maceration, it is then fermented in cement vats at 59 degrees using indigenous yeasts from our vineyards. Afterwards, it is aged on its lees for a few weeks, giving it good volume on the mouth.

Vintage

The crop yield was less than usual; however, the quality of the grapes is very high as a result of the surface/volume ratio of the berry, and due to the climatic conditions during ripening that allowed for a perfect evolution. Thus, it is a vintage marked by the production of wines that will be very well balanced with a deep color. The harvest for the rosés was done two weeks before normal harvest to be able to get the desirable color.