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Contreras Ruiz, Clavellina Rosado, DO Condado de Huelva, Spain, 2023

Product code: 4617
Contreras Ruiz, Clavellina Rosado, DO Condado de Huelva, Spain, 2023

Producer Profile

Next to the National Park of Donana, an area of preserved natural beauty, Bodegas Contreras Ruiz champions the rich, full bodied Zalema grape.

Located in the deep south of Spain, on the Atlantic coast close to Portugal, this is the perfect site to grow this local variety organically. Their goal is to make complex wines, where this single grape variety is expressed in different ways according to site and soil.

Viticulture

An intensive berry selection is done in the vineyard to reach a yeild of 7,000kg per hectare.

Winemaking

Macerated on the skins to get the colour, then the must is extracted after alcoholic fermentation and rested on the fine lees until bottling.

Oak Ageing

No oak ageing

Tasting Note

Pale salmon-pink colour, red berries on the nose. Surprisingly weighty and fleshy and well structured despite its youth with excellent balance between freshness and persistence.

Food Matching

Salads, rice, pasta, seafood, vegetables, white and red meats.

Technical Details
Varieties:
Syrah 100%
Vegetarian Vegan Works Organically Bottle weight: 419 g
ABV:
11.5%

Closure:
Technical cork

Colour:
Rose

Style:
Still wine

Case Size:
6 x 75cl