Versos de Valtuille El Rapolao 2021

The Estévez family has produced another bottling of one of the most famous places in the village of Valtuille, the 2021 Valtuille El Rapolao. It's a single-vineyard red from one of the coolest places in the village, a site with a high content of iron and organic matter in the soils planted over a century ago. It fermented in two 1,000-liter bins with 100% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in two well-seasoned and neutral 500-liter French oak barrels. It has contained ripeness and alcohol (13.1%). All the single-vineyard bottlings except El Rapolao come from their own family vineyards; but they don't have properties here, and they wanted to produce a wine from this cru and sourced some grapes from a local grower. 1,100 bottles were filled in February 2023. - Luis Gutiérrez.