DESCRIPTION
Fact sheet
Winery: Frontonio
Brand: Microcósmico Macabeo
Designation: IGP Valdejalón (Aragón)
Type: White wine
Vintage: 2019
Alcohol: 13,5%
Type of grapes: 100% Macabeo
Time of ageing: from 5 to 6 months in underground concrete tanks on its fine lees without battonage.
Parker score: +92 puntos Parker
Vineyard and elaboration
The grapes come from traditional bush vines, goblet-trained and dry-farmed, sustainably grown in calcareous soils. The vineyard is more than 65 years old and covers an area of 10 hectares, with a 6% slope in the 'El Sotillo' area, at 530 metres above sea level. These are small, artisan vintages aged in old caves. The grapes are harvested manually.
Vinification is based on destemming, with 20 hours of maceration without SO2. The yeasts are native and vatting takes 15 days in underground concrete at 17-18 ºC.
Winery
In 2008 Fernando Mora started making wine at home. Thus began one of the most interesting and original wine projects in Spain.
The winery is a house with a 200 year old underground cave (3 levels) that enables them to work by gravity and delicately handle the grapes, as well as benefiting from perfect temperature and humidity conditions for ageing.
After a major remodelling, it now lets them process around 70,000 kilos of grapes and age almost 50,000 litres of wine in various containers: concrete, oak foudres and barrels of different sizes up to 600 litres (demi-muid).
Although wines have been aged in this winery since 2017, 2019 is the first vintage that has been made entirely in the new winery and in which they have been able to vinify all the plots separately. There are 45 wines in total with which they will make different blends.
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