Scala Dei Heretge red wine

Heretge is a monovarietal from Cariñena that breaks with it “dogma” followed so far by Cellers Scala Dei, where Garnacha has always been the hallmark. This is, well, a transgressive bet, a “heresy” and a tribute to ancestral viticulturetral of the area. This limited edition of about 3.000 Bottles have been made by hand with grapes from vines of more than 80 three years old “costers” different: Towards the Sierra, Parts of Ase y La Font, thus faithfully reflecting the typicality and unique character of the area.

DEVELOPMENT (VINIFICATION)
Wine making is similar to what we do in Cellers Scala Dei with our Grenache from historic vineyards. Basically the idea is not to intervene so that what the wine shows is the peculiarity of the terroir that marks so much the slate wines of Priorat. So, fermentation took place in open cement tanks, alternating punching and pumping over depending on the daily tasting. Fermented with a 30% of the scrape, the one that corresponds to one of the three “costers”, where we get to harvest with a mature stalk. He was 22 days in contact with the skins from vatting to pressing. Fermentation takes place with native yeasts.

Description

Tasting notes: HERITAGE SCALE

  • View: bold and intense color.
  • Nose: intense fruity with characteristics of ripe red fruits.
  • Mouth: fresh, light and dense finish.

The winery:

Land of vineyards

Already in 1775, the traveler british Henry Swinburne claimed that, in the region of Reus, “the best wine to drink is what is harvested in the mountains of the carthusians”. Two hundred years later, these mountains are cultivated vineyards, where excellent wines, a raw material of a quality that is recognized both before, as today.

Hundreds of years ago who practiced the viticulture in some of the estates bodega Scaladei. Are the lands where it has remained the vineyard throughout the centuries, so that the grape that has been obtained has always been quality undisputed. The grapes coming out of our wines comes from vines that are about fifty years of media. Are nearly sixty acres -of garnacha and cariñena, mainly- spread over 42 different farms and that, very often, they are small worlds that have nothing to do with each other and cultivate and take care from the respective particularity. Parcels located between the 400 and the 800 meters above sea level, what makes us count on some of the vineyards of higher altitude of the Priorat. There are three types of soil you have (whiteboards, clays and calcareous soils) and, due to the rugged orography of the territory, we have in all possible orientations. All of this allows us to have a wide range of nuances in the wines, attentive to the smallest detail of the production, considering that it is the winery itself that controls and works the farms directly.

History

Founded by the same families that in 1840 buy la cartuja, Wineries of Scaladei is the living history of wine in the Priorat. This winery came the first bottles of wine Priorat, in 1878, path of the Universal Exhibition of Paris. Wines that still age in the former digs of the carthusians, of the SEVENTEENTH century, open only to guided tours.

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Weight 1.5 kg
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