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Today on our blog, we’d like to tell you about a very special wine out of the ones we make using the grapes from our vineyards in Castile-La Mancha. In this case, we’d also like to bring you a white wine, a varietal Chardonnay: Pago Mota. Jesús Bernad, Arzuaga’s Global Brand Ambassador, was in charge of leading this tasting of this wine, which he defines as ‘cheerful and highly versatile’.
‘Pago Mota is a white Chardonnay wine and its name, Mota, pays tribute to a little bird that lives in the brambles and is very difficult to spot; you have to go and discover it,’ explains Bernad, who compares this characteristic with the wine being tasted, since, as he describes it, ‘it’s an original white that needs to be discovered’.
If we look at how it’s made, Bernad highlights that ‘the vines are at a high altitude at the foot of the mountains in Malagón, in Ciudad Real, and the golden grapes are harvested at their optimal maturity in 15-kilo boxes’. Once the grapes have been harvested, ‘they are pressed lightly and the must ferments in French oak barrels, and then it spends 70 days ageing in them, with light bâttonage taking place to increase the flavour volume on the palate and to maintain the freshness of the grapes’.
In terms of the tasting, during the visual phase, we see ‘a bright straw yellow colour, with golden and green glints on the rim that reflect its youth’. Bernad moves on to the nose saying, ‘it’s very clean and intense and at the same time tantalising, with an aroma of white flowers, hints of tropical fruits and a touch of citrus, which evolve into pleasant notes of toffee, cocoa and roasted coffee’.
Going on to the palate, its attack is ‘unctuous and creamy, with a full fruitiness that’s balanced with its vibrant and refreshing acidity, giving it a long persistence, a vanilla-y finish and hints of flowers’.
Finally, if we think about the perfect pairing, Pago Mota is a wine ‘to discover and enjoy with avant-garde dishes, as well as Japanese cuisine or seafood dishes, and more traditional recipes such as fish baked in salt or in sauce, such as cod al pil-pil’.
We’re convinced that Pago Mota is a wine that will be a pleasant surprise for anyone who tries it, so all you need to do is to chill it and enjoy! Cheers!