Brand:  Miñato da Raña 2019; first vintage: 2014.

Zone: Laderas del Miño  Village:  O Saviñao (without appellation).

Grapes: 60 % mencía, 30% garnacha tintorera y 10% others.

Plot:  Plot A Raña; more than 100 years old vines, traditional cup-shape.

Exposure: southeast to southwest.

Soil: granite, 60% on slopes looking towards the river.

2019 vintage: Normal sprouting; Cold and rainy spring; Summer with warm but not extreme temperatures. Hot harvest carried out on September 13, 2019.

Vinification: Clusters selected by hand in the vineyards. Quickly transported to the winery in  15 kg crates. Foot-trodden with 100% whole-clusters in open 600 liter French oak barrels . Alcoholic fermentation and part of the malolactic with the skins for 20 days with the subsequent pressing. Malolatic fermentation in used French oak barrels (2008) of 500L. (Boutes) without the use of any additional product. Aging on its lees for 9 months until bottling. Bottling without clarification, filtered and  with modest levels of SO2.

Bottled: june 17, 2020 (fruit day and waning moon).

Production: 657 bottles + 1 magnum.
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ANALYSIS:
Total Ac.: 4.9 g/l
pH: 3.82
% Vol.: 12º
Res. sugar: 0,7 g/l
   Miñato da Raña