The Ochoa Vino Dulce de Moscatel is elaborated with 100% Moscatel.
Preparation: Elaborated at their own muscatel vineyard. The best grapes with higher concertration of sugar are hand picked and selected to get a sweet wine known for its aromatic potential and appropriate balance between sugar and acidity. After de-stemming to remove scratches and pressing the grapes, the raisin goes through a pneumatic press process where the free run juice will become the Ochoa Vino Dulce after fermentation at low temperature and subsequent cold shutdown.
Tasting notes:
Bright golden yellow colour. Aroma: complex, powerful and fresh, toasted notes of dried Moscatel grapes. Palate: Silky, balanced and very refreshing fruitiness extending to a joyful and long aftertaste. Notes of overripe grapes that increase the diversity of aromas on the nose and palate.
What the critics say...
Proensa Guide: 96 points
Peñin Guide: 90 points(01/01/2012)
Bright yellow colour. Scents of white flowers, fresh fruit, citrus, expressive. On palate, tasty, fruity, fresh.
Pairing: Blue Cheese, Chocolate, Desserts, Ice Cream, Pastry.
Convinced that the quality is born in the vineyard, at Ochoa Wineries they only use grapes that come from their own vine-stocks. The vineyard is respected to the maximum, without breaking the natural balance, but always taking advantage of the possibilities of the new technologies, developing... programs of research (the I+D) to provide to the products the suitable fusion between tradition and modernity and to create innovative wines. They Possess 143 hectares of own vineyard in Traibuenas's natural site. The vineyards come from the former vine-stocks where the best vine-stocks have been selected to multiply its vegetable material. The plantation frame is of 3x1 meters, and they face the south to obtain the suitable maximun surface of plants exposed to the sun. Nowadays 1.000.000 of kilos per year of grape produce approximately 600.000 bottles a year. The process is totally automated, with the personal touch of 14 persons providing the indispensable humanity to the wines. The elaboration of the wine is composed by small histories, for what it is very important to take care of every single detail.
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