EL CARBONERO

Wine type: White wine.

 Vineyard characteristics:

• Varieties: 100% dry-farmed Macabeo, bush-trained.
• Vineyard age: 43 years.
• Soil: Sand, limestone and marl.
• Cultivation: Organic.
• Altitude: 700 m above sea level.
• Location: Las Monjas-Venta del Moro-Valencia.
• Harvest date: mid-September.

Winemaking:

• Hand-harvested into 18 kg crates.
• Destemmed and crushed. Fermented on the skins for 1 month, then pressed and aged in stainless steel tanks on static fine lees for 5 months.
• Unfined, unfiltered, with no added sulphites.

 Tasting notes:

•  APPEARANCE: Golden yellow.
• NOSE: floral and aniseed notes such as fennel, hints of fruit like baked apple and dried apricots, and dried herbs like hay.
• PALATE: fresh entry, pleasant, fruity mid-palate and a medium finish with citrus and bitter notes, rounded off.

Food pairing:

• Starters, semi-aged cheeses, oily fish, crustaceans such as prawns, molluscs and seafood, light meats, rice, pasta carbonara.