Maestro Tejero Amanda Rosado 2023 cave-de-beblenheim with notes of sweet spice

with notes of sweet spice

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After blending the wine was left to settle before bottling on the Wairau River Estate

with ample tannin and acidity as well as fruit density to last the distance

saline finish

Maestro Tejero Amanda Rosado 2023 cave-de-beblenheim with notes of sweet spiceThis wild, pomegranate coloured rosado comes from a tiny, 60 year old, single vineyard called El Cuchillejo. Here the red juiced Garnacha Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet) vines grow on chalky clay soils at 930 meters of altitude, on the slopes of the Olmos de Duero valley. There are three hours of skin contact before the juice is bled off into small inox vats where the wine ferments without additions. Naturally clarified over winter, the wine is bottled