Brand:  Paraje Mina 2018; first vintage: 2012.

Zone: Castrelo Village: Cambados (without appellation).

Grape: white.

Vineyard:  Paraje Mina; more than 30 years old vines, trained in the traditional Pergola style .

Exposure: Facing to the west.

Soil:  granitic, sandy soils.

2018 vintage: Winter begins dry and final cold-rainy, brudbreak late; Spring continued cold-rainy and just hot, flowering normal; Summer too cool-wet delayed maturation but August dry-hot +30° precipitating it in 15 days; Harvest started 9/10 and ended 10/6 of 2018.

Vinification: Clusters selected by hand in the vineyards. Quickly transported to the winery in  15 kg crates. The grapes were not destemmed before going into a pneumatic press for a low pressure pressing. Fermented with its own yeasts ,without static settling,  at a controlled temperature and without the use of any additional product apart from SO2., in 1 steel vats 500L. and in 1 barrel of used French oak (2008) of 500 liters (cooperage Radoux). Batonage weekly for 3 months and aging on its lees for 9 months until bottling. Bottling without tartaric stabilization by cold, without clarification, filtered and  with modest levels of SO2.

Bottled: June 17,  2018 (fruit day and full moon).

Production: 1.204 bottles + 47 magnums.

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ANALYSIS:
Total Ac.: 9,2 g/l
pH: 2,98
% Vol.: 12,7º
Res. sugar: 1,4 g/l
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