Bottle 75cl

Wine Proelio Foster 2016Two are the concepts that give content to the Proelio Foster 2014: one is semantic, related to the brand name (Latin for “proelium”, that means so much “battle” as the “effort” or “determination” with which he was facing any work), and the other, much more interesting, is wine, since its first year, in the year 2012, has been a bet explicit by the expression more modern and conjugate of “breeding” traditional territory from this past summer has been renamed “Rioja Oriental”, in place of the antañón name “Rioja Baja. Of the two wineries of Nalda (Rioja) belonging to the group of Palace Wine bar and separated by barely a hundred meters, Proelio is exclusively dedicated to the elaboration of red wines, while in Nivarius give way to the white. The Proelio Foster interest in both the vineyard high age (an average of more than forty years) in the neighbouring municipality of Clavijo, as the pre-fermentation maceration of the grape (between 48 and 72 hours) prior to the fermentation tanks stainless, the measured parenting 12 months in new barrels and second-use, and the rest and homogenization rear of the wine until bottling in August 2016.Of intense garnet color red with red reflex of enormous intensity, the Proelio Foster 2014 it is strong on the nose, with a wild fruit (red and black) of optimum maturity and freshness, fine notes of toast, delicate nuances dessert and a jam that make you hover on the dulcedumbre without falling ever in it, spicy notes and creamy oak, a distinctly balsamic (thyme, black licorice, fragrant herbs) and floral, and an extraordinary fund mineral of extraordinary nature geographic, it also reaffirms the values of freshness and anticipates the suculencia of your palate. In the mouth the fruit is shown fleshy (cherries, plum new) very woven with the oak, spicy and creamy (cocoa) and a singular expression (almost initial) deeply earthy and mineral (graphite, peat, understory), huge texture, structure and concentration, herbs and licorice in the mid palate, notes acídulos (frutillos, bitter orange), tannins tasty and firm, and it has a long finish in which reappear the values of minerals along certain floralidad fragrant and sweet (lavender) that prolongs the expression of the extraordinary form.Winemaker: Paul Tascon91 sts and 4 stars Guía Peñín 2017 "Powerful, ripe fruit, spicy."91 sts James Suckling 24/07/2017 "Floral, easy and delicate."More awards90 sts Gilbert & Gaillard 2016 "A wine of great elegance." (add 2012)90 sts Verema - 13/02/2015 (add 2012)