Ostatu Blanco 2023

• Vintage: 2022
• Vintage Classification: Very Good/ excellent (provisional)
• Production: 84.900 bottles

Tasting Notes

• Pale yellow and bright colour with greenish hues.
• Citrus and white fruits (green apple, pear) with floral and slightly herbal memories, very fine expression of the variety.
• Very good balance, well-salted acidity, fresh, greedy and with a certain oiliness note.
• Great balance of flavours where green apple and lemon, ripened greengage plum and white flowers are predominating.

Vineyard & viticulture

• Sáenz de Samaniego Family.
• 85% Viura, 15% Malvasia
• Age of vines, between 30 and 80 years old.
• The grapes come from the highest parts of our oldest vineyards, in the districts of Samaniego, Laguardia, and Leza, at an altitude of 580 m above sea level. Poor calcareous/clay soil, on south facing slopes. The subsoil is made up of various layers of white rock.
• Plantation density: 3.000 vines/hectare.
• Goblet pruning.
• Production: 8.300 kg/hectare
• Hand harvested and taken to the winery in small trailer loads between 13^th and 21^st September.

Wine-Making

• The grapes are destemmed and pressed mechanically. Some hours low temperature maceration
• The grape must ferments on the lees in stainless steel vats for 24 days at a temperature of 15-16°C.
• Cold stabilisation
• Filtered only for tartaric stabilisation process.
• The wine is then kept in the vats until it is bottled.