HERNANDO Y SOURDAIS ANTIDOTO TINTO FINO 2020

Style: Savoury & Textured

'Antidoto' and 'Dominio de Es' are the Ribera del Duero wine projects of Bertrand Sourdais, who has a parallel existence running his family's Chinon property in the Loire Valley (Domaine de Pallus). In Spain, Bertrand's work centres around a little village called San Esteban de Gormaz, 70km west of the city of Soria, which names this sector of Ribera del Duero. Here he works with pre-phylloxera vines from antique vineyards organically grown and biodynamically farmed at around 1000m above sea level. IMPORTER NOTES

Antidoto is barely made ¿ given the lightest, cool, simple and short fermentation in concrete vat (fermentation finishes off skins once a certain density is realised). Maturation is gentle and matter-of-fact, in clean old 600 litre barrels for 10 months. 70% of the fruit is from very old vines (there is no white fruit in this blend), and stems are excluded. Bertrand is trying to render old vine character as deftly as possible, in particular to avoid over-extraction and excess concentration: ¿avoiding the tannin avalanche¿. The wine is filtered lightly, and not fined. SPANISH ACQUISITION

Region: Ribera del Duero, SPAIN

Variety: Tempranillo

ABV: 13.5%

Liquor Act 2007. It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of a person under the age of 18 years. Lic No. LIQP770016424

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