'14 Palacio de Canedo 12/42

'14 Palacio de Canedo 12/42
Bierzo, Spain

organic, red fruit, aromatic

Tasting Notes: Medium body wine, velvety and fresh. Explosive fragrance with red fruit and cinnamon aromas. Silky and lively.

Canedo is in the town of Galicia, Spain, the region is Bierzo which is located in northwest Spain.

The Palacio de Canedo has been associated to wine since 1730. In those times they used to make and store 30 thousand litres of wine from the vineyards surrounding the Palace. In that era it was run by the Lord and Lady of Canedo

, nowadays by Prada and Flor.

In 1987 Prada decided to buy the palace with the main idea to keep it alive, create a winery and look after the land. Based on the idea of an area that respects the environment, Palacio de Canedo has recovered land and slopes making the most of the excellent soil and basing the work on ecological agriculture.

The concept has always been very clear: respect the earth and the environment. This is the reason why insecticides and weed killers are not used.

The goal is a clean and aromatic wine, with the taste and colour only from grapes. It is wine made in the vineyard and with all the character from the land that produced it. In the winery they allow nature to follow its own course, looking after what the land produced. This way they obtain authentic wine with a spherical soul.

Palacio de Canedo is 100% Mencia.  The grapes under go a process called carbonic fermentation.  While there are different technicalities in regards to carbonic maceration this particular wine goes through a classic process in which the grapes are picked and loaded into a vat.  The weight of the grapes causes the bottom berries to crush, yeast reacts with the juice and starts the fermentation process.  Fermentation eventually will start taking place in all of grapes while the juice is still inside the skin of the grape.  Carbonic Maceration helps create fruit forward tasting wines with simple tannins.  If any oak is used with the Palacio de Canedo it is more than likely neutral oak.