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Viña Pomal Gran Reserva is a red wine serious and of great quality which combines the best of The Rioja. Represents the gran reserva classic Rioja, faithful to its origins from over a century ago.Only produced in vintages of exceptional, and with a choliness to limited bottles.DEVELOPMENT (VINIFICATION)Viña Pomal Gran Reserva is characterized by a vinification traditional.The grape is hand-selected in our vineyards arrives at the warehouse and is destemmed and pressed to make a maceration moderately long in a tank. After the fermentations alcoholic and malolactic, the wines are trasegados to be raised in bordeaux barrels of 225 liters are traditionally made of american oak. After passing around 1 year of barrel aging, the wine is racked back to tank. It is the moment in which is decided the blend the Grand Reserve, and Graciano, variety minority of Rioja, it enters with a 10% of the mixture of the base of Tempranillo, providing your structure, color and acidity characteristic. The wine back into barrels, clarified with egg whites that help your clarity and sharpness, and passes 1 year more in casks to complete the aging process in wood 225 liters. After its passage through the barrel, the wine is assembled during 6 months in vats of oak where natural finishes cleaning and assembling all of its components. Three years of ageing in bottle complete the craft work of aging of these unique wines in Rioja.