White wine, Scala Dei Massipa

Massipa is the reissue of one of the wines from the cellar that had been developed in the past with the name of “White Scala Dei”. With this wine, want to show the fresh face of the Garnacha Blanca in the Priory in conjunction with the low Chenin blanc. Comes from a single vineyard historical, The Massipa, planted with white varieties. A white sleek and subtle that has demonstrated a good capacity for ageing.

DEVELOPMENT (VINIFICATION)

We harvested the Grenache and Chenin: the Grenache is at the point of maturation that we consider it appropriate to, and the Chenin helps us to maintain the acidity. Already in the cellar, are pressed together, the two varietals, is desfanga the wort and is transferred to a concrete tank where fermentará at a controlled temperature of 16-18 ° C with indigenous yeasts. Once finished the fermentation, is transferred to remove the lees thick, and subtract just fine. During the first two months of ageing is done a battonage per week and remains in the deposit; from the two months starts static ageing with lees on the bottom of the foudre.

VINEYARD (VITICULTURE)
This is a wine of a single vineyard, The Massipa, located just to the side of the vine of Masdeu, with east orientation, to 650 meters of height and clayey soil red with inlays of gypsum. The vineyard has 45 years and is the only one with white grapes of Cellers Scala Dei. A road divided the vineyard in half: to one side there is the White Grenache and the other of the Chenin, planted by the Sr. Peyra at the end of the 80 with the arrival of varietal French at the Priorat.
AWARDS
93 POINTS ROBERT PARKER 2018
90 POINTS YEARBOOK OF WINES (THE COUNTRY) 2018

Description

Tasting notes: SCALA DEI MASSIPA WHITE 2017

  • View: Straw yellow.
  • Nose: Herbaceous notes of white flowers.
  • Mouth: White with body, fruity and fresh at the same time.

The winery:

Land of vineyards

Already in 1775, the traveler british Henry Swinburne claimed that, in the region of Reus, “the best wine to drink is what is harvested in the mountains of the carthusians”. Two hundred years later, these mountains are cultivated vineyards, where excellent wines, a raw material of a quality that is recognized both before, as today.

Hundreds of years ago who practiced the viticulture in some of the estates bodega Scaladei. Are the lands where it has remained the vineyard throughout the centuries, so that the grape that has been obtained has always been quality undisputed. The grapes coming out of our wines comes from vines that are about fifty years of media. Are nearly sixty acres -of garnacha and cariñena, mainly- spread over 42 different farms and that, very often, they are small worlds that have nothing to do with each other and cultivate and take care from the respective particularity. Parcels located between the 400 and the 800 meters above sea level, what makes us count on some of the vineyards of higher altitude of the Priorat. There are three types of soil you have (whiteboards, clays and calcareous soils) and, due to the rugged orography of the territory, we have in all possible orientations. All of this allows us to have a wide range of nuances in the wines, attentive to the smallest detail of the production, considering that it is the winery itself that controls and works the farms directly.

History

Founded by the same families that in 1840 buy la cartuja, Wineries of Scaladei is the living history of wine in the Priorat. This winery came the first bottles of wine Priorat, in 1878, path of the Universal Exhibition of Paris. Wines that still age in the former digs of the carthusians, of the SEVENTEENTH century, open only to guided tours.

 

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Weight 1.5 kg
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