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On 14th March, a situation began in Spain that was unfamiliar to the vast majority of us. A state of alarm that involved being confined to our homes. At Grupo Arzuaga, we started working to try and do our bit to help in whatever way we could. So, in addition to donating materials, the No Estáis Solos charity campaign and designing charity t-shirts alongside the basketball club San Pablo Burgos, we decided to start doing live videos on social media and video tastings to try to make your time at home a bit nicer and help you to learn more about our great passion: wine.
In this sense, today on our blog we wanted to give you some notes about the video tasting that Javier Bañales, Arzuaga’s sales manager and brand ambassador, did with one of our most unique wines: Fan D. Oro As Bañales explains, ‘Fan D. Oro is a 100% Chardonnay white wine’. So, the first thing that’s a surprise is the variety used to make it, which is very uncommon in this area. However, it’s a unique variety ‘due to the characteristics of the terroir and the La Planta estate, at 900 metres above sea level and with limestone subsoil’. ‘This is a grape that behaves amazingly and goes beyond all the parameters we usually define for a barrel-fermented Chardonnay,’ affirms Arzuaga’s sales manager.
In terms of the different stages of the tasting itself, visually, Bañales notes that Fan D. Oro is ‘a wine with a brilliant, clean golden yellow colour and with an amazing clarity’. Moving on to the nose, he defines ‘its integration with the oak’ as ‘one of the most unique notes of this wine’. Moreover, Bañales asserts that on the nose, this is ‘a wine with very subtle, ripe, complex fruit, a citrusy, tropical sensation. And far in the background, the oak is perfectly integrated, subtle, giving those elegant touches’. Lastly, on the palate we find ‘an attack with those tropical sensations, fresh. It’s an elegant wine with a certain creaminess and a very long finish led by the acidity,’ where ‘complex notes of toffee, caramel and even anise’ also appear.
We invite you to discover this white wine from Bodegas Arzuaga, a ‘stunning example of how a variety behaves that’s not had much uptake in the area where we are, but that behaves amazingly’.
We’d like to finish this post by sharing and extending to all of you the top tip from Javier Bañales: ‘let’s continue to be happy and toasting with good wine’.