2019 Taganan Tinto

The 2019 Táganan Tinto, the village red from Taganana, was produced with grapes from different vineyards and altitudes that range between 75 and 400 meters, from vines that are 50 to 150 years of age planted on old basalt soils. Both 2019 and 2020 were very dry and low yielding, a constant here since 2016; and they had to change the pruning of the old vines to try to adapt to these dry conditions, yet they still saw a 60% reduction in their yields. This is a blend of mostly Listán Negro and Negramoll but also some Mulata, Listán Gacho (pink/rosé) and Malvasía Rosada. The wine is only 12% alcohol and has notable freshness. It fermented with 30% to 70% of stems, depending on the plot, and always with indigenous yeasts, and it matured with fine lees in well-seasoned, neutral 228-liter oak barrels for one year. It might be marginally riper than the 2020 and a little more rustic. 3,000 bottles (down from 5,000) were produced. It was bottled in December 2020.