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If there’s something special about our La Planta red wine, it’s the fact that it’s so versatile, you can enjoy it in lots of different settings throughout the week. What better than a glass of wine on a warm Sunday afternoon together with family and friends, enjoying some tapas at a bar? It’s also perfect for lunchtime, accompanying a nice cut of red meat, for example. Or once the sun goes down, on a cold winter’s evening while reading a book next to a warm fire.
At Arzuaga, we treat this wine with love and care, the same as we do with every wine that comes out of our winery. The grapes we use to make it come from the La Planta estate, from vineyards on the southern moor. As you all know well, although nowadays it’s common to plant vines on moorland, here at Arzuaga, we can proudly say that we were pioneers in moorland vine growing in Ribera del Duero. It’s an area that we continue to cultivate even today, characterised by its altitude and the fact that it holds a privileged natural setting. Besides the vines, this is where you can find our wildlife reserve that’s home to deer, wild boar and mouflons.
To tell you about La Planta, which is probably our most popular wine, we’re going to turn to the tasting of the 2020 vintage led by Jesús Bernad, Arzuaga’s Global Brand Ambassador. As Bernad notes, the grapes we use to make La Planta come from 25-year-old vines, so they’re at a perfect point of maturity.
La Planta, Bernad points out, is ‘a fun, fresh and fruit-forward wine. Very pleasant’. The Tempranillo grapes used to make this red wine are harvested at their optimal point of ripeness and then taken to the winery, where they spend a few days in cold maceration and a week fermenting. The wine then spends six months ageing in French and American oak barrels.
When it comes to tasting this wine, we first notice its cherry red colour with a slightly violet rim, which shows its ‘extreme youth’. Bringing it to the nose, we find a superb wine that’s very fruit-driven, while on the palate it’s flavourful, juicy and fresh, with some very noticeable fruit notes and a really fresh acidity that gives it a liveliness. It also has incredibly smooth tannins and a flavourful medium persistence.
All of these characteristics make La Planta a versatile wine that’s perfect for so many different occasions – it’s satisfying, agreeable and truly worth discovering.
You can see Jesús Bernad’s tasting of this wine via this link.