Tintoralba Dulce

Tasting Notes

Upon first glance, you will notice this wine’s color, a dark lush purple originating from the over-ripe Garnacha Tintorera grapes. The bouquet suggests hints of black pepper, cherries, and port wine layered over mineral earth. It’s soft and silky in the mouth with medium acidity and low tannins, showing pure unadulterated cherry fruit flavors. And like a warm blanket, the Tintoralba Dulce wraps itself gently around your tongue and leaving a rich lingering memory on the finish.

Food Pairing

Pungent cheeses such as Cabrales, a creamy, pungent blue from Asturies; Valdeón, a strong, spicy blue cheese from Castilla y Leon; Peñamellera, a strong cow’s milk cheese from Asturies.

This wine also pairs well with dried fruits, such as figs, dates, prunes and raisins, and/or bitter chocolate.

Recipes

• Buttersweet Chocolate Truffles
• Pear Crisps with Vanilla Brown Butter
• Original Plum Torte
• Dried Figs in Red Wine

If you have a suggestion for a recipe that pairs well with this wine, we’d love to hear about it!

Technical Details

100% Garnacha Tintorera
Vineyard age: over 40 years old
Average yield: 15 hl/ha
Vinification:
Grapes in selected blocks are handpicked and placed gently into boxes. This is followed by cold skin maceration at 10º C and partial fermentation at 12º C. At the end of fermentation, the wine is clarified, lightly filtered, and are finally stored in a temperature controlled climate.
Production: 5,000 bottles of 50 cl.
Alcohol content: 10% Vol.
Color intensity: 16
Total acidity: 5.59 gr./l in tartaric acid
Reducing sugars: 240 g
Degree Baumé: 12.80
Total sulphurous acid: 83 mg/l
Free sulphurous acid: 38 mg./l

Serve very cold.

Tradition

Did you know that our second largest crop next to wine in Higueruela is cereal? Obviously, our ancestors felt very fortunate to have the ample amount of wheat they did and thought to create a festival based on it called, El Rollo de Santa Quiteria, celebrated on May 22nd. During this festival, we gather mounds and wheat and boil it down with a touch of salt until it is soft and malleable. We then take it out of the water, weave it into one of our many traditional patterns, and typically, paint it. It is our way of not only a wonderful excuse to spend time with our friends and family, while drinking our wine of course, but also as a reminder to simply be grateful for what we have.