
Fukui is a beautiful region located at the center of Japan’s sea coast. The region has Fukui has varying weather conditions. Winter brings a lot of precipitation accompanied by cold winds that bring abundant water while summer season provides warm and sunny weather where locals and tourists get to enjoy the beaches, islands and beautiful landscapes. Fukui’s abundance in water allows for wide variety of rice to get cultivated and harvested in the region. Water and rice are commonly made as delicious sakes, which are alcohol beverages that people in Fukui enjoy.
Among Fukui’s many popular sakes are the Denshin Ine Junmai, Kokuryu Ryu Daiginjo, Born Tokusen Junmai Daiginjo and Ippongi Ginkobai Umeshu. Fukui is blessed with clean water and crops. The region’s clean landscape and farmlands has made them notable for some of the most delicious rice and sake.
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There are afternoons with indigo skies when we approach one of the oldest plots of the estate. Our stroll from the winery follows a line of cypress trees to the corner of a path. This angle gives its name to our most exceptional vineyard.
El Picón is the great symbol and the most profound reality. The sum of enigmas in a beautiful, pure fruit. The wine of silence and intimate joy, an eternal taste in which generations, labours and nature’s favors culminate.
Grapes from the plot of El Picón, one of the oldest at the Pago de los Capellanes estate in Pedrosa de Duero.
22 months in 225-litre, extra-fine grain French oak barrels dried over 60 months.
Pago de los Capellanes Finca El Picón is a mature red wine with intense aromas of red and black fruit from the forest accompanied by deep balsamic notes and spicy touches provided by aging. In the mouth it is meaty, deep and very balanced. A medium to full-bodied wine with vibrant acidity and fine, velvety tannins. The finish is long and very persistent.
1.6 hectares of clay loam soil with surface gravel. Very poor fertility and very low vineyard yields.
Dog Bone is a serious wine with a fun label!
We wanted to make a great wine at a fair price and help dogs across the country. 10% of all profits will go to Humane Societies in places we sell Dog Bone. Sales of this wine are also helping North Coast Grape farmers by finding a home for their excess grapes.
The 2024 growing season delivered ripe, clean fruit with great flavors. The nose has notes of Cherry blossom and Rose hips. On the palate the wine shows ripe Black Cherry and Cola notes and has beautiful balance.
pH: 3.75g/L
TA: 5
ABV: 13.5%