Wine "Valdaya" Mirum, Ribera del Duero DO, 2016
Tasting Notes
Wine demonstrates a rich ruby color with a cherry tint.
The taste of wine - an elegant, rich, multifaceted. It combines the fullness of cherry undertones, the seductive sweetness of chocolate accents and spicy touches of spices against the background of well-integrated tannins. Long, generous aftertaste is decorated with hints of meadow herbs.
The wine has a multifaceted, complex and expressive aroma, dominated by touches of red fruits, accents of raspberries and currants, hints of prunes and nuances of spices. Luxurious oak tones give a special charm to the bouquet.
It is best to serve wine to meat on the grill, vegetables, game, mutton and venison dishes and aged cheeses.
Interesting Facts
"Valdaya" Mirum - a luxurious wine eponymous farm Valdaya, created from the variety Tempranillo, grown on sand-silicon soils in the region of Ribera del Duero. To create a wine used berries from old vines. In the process of vinification, the grapes destabilize and undergo spontaneous maceration, after which comes the turn of fermentation, which lasts 20 days. Further, the wort is still 28 days macerated in barrels where fermentation took place. The final stage of vinification is aging in new barrels from French (90%) and Hungarian (10%) oak, which is carried out for 15 months.
In 2015, the Waldaya wine Mirum was produced in a volume of 12,000 bottles. According to the Decanter magazine, this wine is considered one of the best wines of Ribera del Duero.
Valdaya is a Spanish winery founded by spouses Elena and Joaquin Gonzales. As winemakers, they invited two young professionals, Martha Ramas and Miguel Fisac, who studied enology at the University of Bordeaux and worked in France at the time. Their first result was the vintage of 2013 - a year that in Spain was rated as not the easiest for winemaking. The concept of winemakers was simple: from each of the nine best plots create nine barrels of wine in order to determine in practice the peculiarity of each vineyard. And despite the fact that after assembly only two cuvees were created, the process of identifying and studying the quality and potential of the terroir was extremely important. Since then, the farm produces two wines: Valdaya and Valdaya Mirum, each of which, differing in character and taste, demonstrates the same high quality.
Producer's description
De Haan Altes is a company uniting several Spanish brands. The company is headed by Nuria Altes and her husband, Rafael de Haan, who have dedicated their lives to creating quality wines primarily from local grape varieties. The first brand of the family of winemakers - Terra Alta - was created in 2005. Today, under the wing of the company are collected such brands - Herencia Altes, Valdaya, Adegas Castro Brey, Altanza, Estefania, Felix Lorenzo Cachazo, Arrocal, Volver, Divina Proporcion and others.
