This new Wine Partnership with Julio Romera was born during 2010. That year we couldn’t elaborate our first wine, but in 2011, we picked up our grapes from Alcubilla del Marqués (Soria), and Taruguin wine made its first steps.
In the eastern area of Old Castille, around San Esteban de Gormaz close where Duero River begins, at a great altitude of his valley, close to a thousand meters above sea level, there are still vineyard at these really tough conditions. It does not rain too much even in autumn, and it is very cold in the winter, and that helps us to develop an ecological viticulture. The weeks before the harvest, which are fundamental to its state of maturity, typically have wide ranging variances between day and night, that help the wines are guaranteed an aromatic intensity and matured tannins.
The Old Vines were plant in a terroir with a topsoil of sand although the bed is made-up of rock, its exposure, and its south orientation and, allows the plant to have a great maturation. But the winds that comes from the east, and the altitude (908 meters above the sea), give us the perfect balance for getting a fresh and varietal wines very pleasant. In the Vineyards there are mostly Tinta del País grapes, but there are also some Albillo plants that we used too.
The fermentation was done in a small 1500 liters tank that allows us to control the temperature of the must-wine without the need without the use of energy. The main effort is to pay attention to the details and to listen to the requests of the wine, instinctively.
During the first months of the cask aging process, we work with natural lees selected during the fermentation. Later, we continue selecting the lees, and racking the wine for a natural cleaning process. The wine aged nine months in oak casks. We mixed all the wine for the bottling process, and without any addition, we just produced 806 bottles.