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Macabeo is a white wine variety grape that is created and often blended with white wines and various types of French and Spanish red wines. Macabeo is able to be blended into sparkling and rose wines, but it may be difficult to cultivate the variety. The grape is mostly used to create acidic and young white wines that are consumed typically early. Macabeo is the main grape variety used in white Rioja wines and is sometimes mixed with Tempranillo wine and red Garnacha wine. Because Macabeo needs to be picked early in order to maintain moderate acid levels, harvesting the grapes early can also affect the taste of the wine. Thus, growers decide if the wines will either be dry wines, or sweet wines with honey or floral tones--harvesting them later in the year. The grapes are typically grown in Spain, France, and warm regions in North Africa. Macabeo grapes were introduced in France from Spain, but it is unknown how the variety made it to Spain. In Catalonia, the Macabeo variety is used with Parellada and the Xarel-lo variety to create Cava, which is Spain's most popular sparkling wines. Macabeo wine pairs well with grilled shrimp, a lovely tart green mango salad, or California rolls.

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Painous Brut Cava

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Grape varieties: Parellada 40%, Macabeo 30% and Xarel·lo 30%.
Harvest: Occurs in 3 stages. Macabeo within the first fortnight of September, Xarello during the second fortnight in September and Parellada within the first fortnight of October.
First fermentation and vinification: This is a "Methode Traditionnelle" with
soft pressing of the grapes to obtain 60% of the must (flower must). It is decanted and fermented with controlled temperatures of 18ºC for 20 days until it fully develops the primary aromas of the grapes.
Secondary fermentation: takes place in the bottle for 40 days at a temperature of 16ºC and final ageing for 20 months. Residual sugar: 7 gr. per litre.
Color: Pale yellow with green tones. Shiny and clear.
Aromas: Powerful in the nose, clean. Ageing aromas.
Taste: Soft and well structured, long aftertaste and good balance of acidity and sugar contents.
Gastronomy: It should be served chilled between 5ºC and 7ºC. A flute type glass is recommended. Excellent with pasta, red and soft meats and white fish.Painous is unique in that it is a Cava-Joven style sparkling wine, meaning, the wine receives the minimum aging of 9 months. This allows crisp, fresh aromas and flavors to be expressed. It is delicious for aperitif.

Review:

"Golden straw color. Aromas and flavors of brown butter poached pear, marzipan, lemon and apple, and floating in the pool with the grill going with a round, crisp, finely carbonated, dry medium body and an interesting, medium-length finish manifesting notes of dried apples, apricot jam, blanched almonds, and jasmine rice with no oak flavor. Layers of flavor from fruit to earth dance on the tongue for a classic expression of sparkling wine from Catalonia."

- Beverage Testing Institute (November 2022), 91 pts - Gold Medal

Parajes del Valle Manchuela Bobal Rose Ecologica 2023

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Mineral and citrus notes.

Parajes del Valle Manchuela Macabeo Ecologica 2023

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Fresh and elegant.
RS : 2g/liter
TA : 5.5g/liter

Vittore White Vermouth NV

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Bright golden color, balanced acidity and sweetness. Taste of cinnamon, vanilla, liquorice and clay. Pleasant finish with bitter herbs.

In 1904 Cherubino Valsangiacomo produced the first vermouth bottle, afther 100 years, the fifth generation of the Valsangiacomo familly STILL making it with the ancestral formula devised by Benedetto Valsangiacomo.

White Vermouth, flavored fortified white wine base, together with aromatic mediterranean herbs such as fennel, chamomille and tyme, sweeted with sugar, and grape must caramel.

Ideal as an aperitif, on the rocks with an lemon slice. Also very good with cured and pickled products.

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