2022 Hispano Suizas Albariño Finca Casa Julia

The fantastic Albariño Finca Casa Julia is, as the name suggests, a 100% Albariño from the Designation of Origin Utiel-Requena. The Finca Casa Julia is the first Mediterranean Albariño ever! The Albariño grape is especially famous in the Rias Baixas used for beautiful white wines. In that area the Albariño grape thrives thanks to the influences of the Atlantic Ocean. The top house HispanoSuizas was the first to make a fantastic Mediterranean Albariño by using the altitude of the vineyards (approximately 750 meters), the continental climate, the large day/night difference in temperature and the influence of the Mediterranean Sea. These elements are necessary to make a very fine wine from the Albarino grape and one that is also distinctive.

The Finca Casa Julia has the typical Albarino yellow color with a green tinge in the glass. In the nose the Albariño Finca Casa Julia is very intense, fruity and floral, with a light hint of oak that is very well integrated. In the mouth Fruity, with beautiful acids as befits a beautiful Albarino and this gives a very elegant feeling. The good acidity makes you long for the next sip and gives the wine a beautiful elegant long aftertaste. This is a serious complex Albarino that can also age excellently and is certainly not average. In terms of style it comes more to a Pazo Barrantes certainly partly due to the wood aging and long maturation.

Do not serve this fine wine too cold. We actually recommend a drinking temperature of around 10-12°C for all more complex white wines - certainly not colder. Any precipitation that may be noticed in the wine is natural, because they process the wine with as little filtration as possible to fully appreciate its quality. Ideal to combine with seafood, fish, old cheese, vegetables, smoked food, seafood rice or white meat.

WINE MAKING

They select the best grapes of low-yielding varieties from our own Albariño vineyards, with a planting density of 4,000 plants per hectare. The grapes are collected in special boxes of 15 kg each. The harvest takes place only in the morning to guarantee the right temperature of the grapes until they reach the cellar. Once in the cellar, the full boxes are placed in a cold room and the grapes are stored at -10 ° C.

They select the best grapes very selectively and then the bunches are destemmed and crushed. All the resulting grape pulp then goes into a stainless steel tank with a cooling system to subject the grapes to cold pellicular maceration (8 °C).

The grapes then go to a pneumatic press for a light pressing of maximum 0.5 bar. The must extracted from the press is decanted statically for 24 hours and then only the clean part of the must is transferred for fermentation to new American oak barrels with a capacity of 400 litres and a temperature of 16°C. Once fermentation is complete, it is stored on lees (sur lie) in exclusive Galileo tanks (spherical cement tanks with a radiant surface) until bottling.

FACT: In the tab 'Attachments' you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will automatically send you this when you order this wine. The wine is in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you come to pick up the wine you will often also receive a nice discount . You will see your discount immediately when you choose 'Pick up' on the checkout page. We are located in Dordrecht almost next to the A16 with plenty of parking. Click here for our address.