Tasting notes: Ruby purple color. Complex aroma with red fruits and cassis with a hint of spicy notes and vanilla. In the mouth, it has a jammy entrance with good freshness and minerality that lasts over time. Long aftertaste with fruit and soft tannins.
Wine service: To better expose this wine’s potential, we advise decanting the wine a few minutes before serving. Suggested wine temperature: 15-17 ºC.
Varieties: 58% Syrah, 20% Carignane, 15% Red Grenache, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon
Vinification: Fermented in stainless steel open and closed fermentors at 20-24ºC over a period of 6-8 days with additional skin maceration of 1-3 days depending on the varietal and the conditions.
Oak: 40% of the wine is aged in new French oak (300L) from various forests for six months.
Style: The goal with the Finca Tobella Negre 2011 was to produce a wine that is more accessible with good fruit, fresher and with less barrel time (extraction) and aging. To this end, they took great pains to not harvest grapes at an overripe stage and control fermentation temperatures. They also changed the coupage with respect to the Finca Tobella Selecció Especial and placed more emphasis on Syrah and Carignan. Thanks to the terroir and also varieties like Carignan, the wine has a good natural acidity which affords a liveliness and freshness not seen with most other wines of this class.
Conservation: Although this wine was crafted to be consumed earlier than later, it should continue to improve over the next 2-3 years if properly cellared.
Limited production: 11,000 bottles of 750ml
