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If you’re one of the many fans of our Pago Florentino, you’ve surely realised that the latest vintage has a different look. That’s because our Vino de Pago (single estate wine) has changed both its bottle and its label.
At Bodegas Arzuaga, we continue to focus on evolution both in the winemaking and caring for the vines as well as in the look of our wines. In this sense, the latest example, as we already mentioned, comes from one of the winery’s most special wines: Pago Florentino. Pago Florentino is a single estate wine made fully from the Cencibel grapes that come from Arzuaga’s vineyards in Malagón, Ciudad Real.
The first thing that’s clear is that for its latest vintage, 2020, the bottle has changed from Bordeaux to a more Burgundy style, and there’s also a completely revamped label. So, with a simple glance you’ll be able to see that Pago Florentino has left behind its classic-style label that it featured in past vintages to make way for a bright look that comes thanks to the colour of the stones that make up the design.
‘The first thing that stands out on this new label are these stones that allude to the land, the soil we have in the vineyard,’ explains Ignacio Arzuaga, the managing director of Bodegas Arzuaga. The slopes where we find these stones depicted on the label, together with the marshy flatland next to the vineyard, are what give this wine its typicity. ‘These stones, loaded with a very ferrous component, and the moisture from that flatland mean that we have a wine with maturation, but with enough freshness,’ explains Arzuaga.
Pago Florentino is made fully from Cencibel grapes from a vineyard that’s now certified organic. That’s why another new feature of the 2020 vintage of Pago Florentino is that it’s a certified organic wine.
‘Together with this new organic certification, we wanted to make a more youthful, more fun, fresher, more dynamic wine,’ points out Arzuaga. ‘We haven’t lost those typical aromas of Pago Florentino, but we have given it new notes so that it’s more vibrant, fresher,’ he adds.
We hope you enjoy this new vintage of Pago Florentino and that you like its new look as much as we do!