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The Auditori vintage is produced by the Acústic winery in the Monstant region, located in the province of Tarragona. It is a wine made from old vines 70 to 90 years old planted (1920 and 1940) on 3 small vineyards. Grenache grapes ripen on poor, stony soils with a composition of clay, sand, pebbles and slate. The altitude of the vineyards varies from 450 to 750 meters. The very high quality grapes were harvested by hand with very low yields . After maceration for 15 days, the wine spends 13 months in French oak barrels , both new and second use. There is no filtration during bottling to preserve the pure expression of Grenache. This deep wine carries complex aromas of black and red fruits, blackberry , plum , cherry , blue flowers , black truffle , garrigue , black olive , cocoa intertwined with mineral and menthol nuances. Ultra fine tannins, slender acidity and a beautiful structure. Long and memorable finish.
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The history of wine in Spain is so old that no one really knows who brought the first vines to the region. When the Phoenicians arrived some 3,000 years ago and founded the present-day cities of Cádiz and Jerez, viticulture was well established and Spanish wines were widely marketed throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa. You could say that Spain is a wine miracle. After years spent away from the world of fine wines, she is today a major player. Investment and ambition in the vineyards and cellars results in increasingly rich and complex (often very alcoholic) and spicy reds which are increasingly appreciated by international consumers. Proud to have more land devoted to vines than any other country, Spain is only beginning to capitalize on this resource consistently. Spain is an anarchic tangle of regions and sub-regions, just as its landscape is an anarchic tangle of incredibly raw landscapes. A glance at a map reveals the climatic diversity among Spain's many wine regions, from the soggy green vineyards of Galicia on the northern Atlantic coast to the toasty vineyards of southeastern the Mediterranean. Spain's saving grace, in terms of viticulture, is the average altitude of its vineyards, above 600 meters. A large part of Spanish vineyards therefore manage to produce grapes of good color and acidity simply because night temperatures are relatively low and the grapes do not ripen until the end of a sufficiently long growing period. But there is real treasure to be found for those willing to dig and, now that a class of connoisseurs has developed in Spain, all manner of ambitious investors have done their part to change the image of Spanish wine . Today, a new generation of winemakers has quietly begun making spectacular wines and experimenting with grape varieties that would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Wine remains an important commodity and is an integral part of Spanish culture.