Brand:  Crisopa 2018; first vintage: 2011.

Zone: Sisán Village: Ribadumia (without appellation).

Grape: white.

Vineyard: Manzaniña; 35 years old vines, trained in the traditional Pergola style .

Exposure: facing to the south west.

Soil: decomposed granite and clay soils.

2018 vintage: Winter begins dry and final cold-rainy, brudbreak late; Spring continued cold-rainy and just hot, flowering normal; Summer too cool-wet delayed maturation but August dry-hot +30° precipitating it in 15 days; Harvest started 9/10 and ended 10/6 of 2018.

Vinification: Clusters  selected by hand in the vineyards. Quickly transported to the winery in  15 kg crates. 100% of the grapes foot-trodden in open plastic vessels with 100% whole-clusters included. Skin-fermented with its own yeasts and without the use of any additional product apart from sulphur in for 20 days in a  vat. Pressed in a vertical press for a low pressure pressing and aging  in 1 barrel of used French oak (2008) of 500 liters (Boutes). Batonage weekly for 3 months and aging on its lees for 11 months until bottling. Bottling without tartaric stabilization by cold, without clarification, filtered and  with modest levels of SO2.

Bottled: August 21, 2019 (fruit day -waning moon). Aging in bottle for 3 months.

Production: 636 bottles.

                        Photo: Plot  Manzaniña