‘Alma de Luzón’ and ‘Por Tí’: New vintages have arrived at Bodegas Luzón!
After the previous vintages were sold out in less than seven months with exceptional reviews, ‘Alma de Luzón’ 2019 and ‘Por Tí’ 2019 have just been released.
Both ‘Alma de Luzón’ 2018 and ‘Por Tí’ 2018 were a sales success, as evidenced by the speed with which the bottles were sold out in the winery, not in vain this past vintage of ‘Alma de Luzón’, was defined by the specialized critics as ‘the best vintage of Alma de Luzón to date’, obtaining 93 points both in the ‘Guía Peñín’ and in the ratings of ‘Wine Enthusiast’, identical scores to those obtained by the same vintage of ‘Por Tí’.
With the 2018 vintage sold out, the 2019 vintage of both wines is now available to the public. A year that began with a winter of mild temperatures and low rainfall, a shortage that was corrected with abundant spring rains at the end of the season, which together with the low temperatures during that period, caused a delay in flowering and fruit set. The summer was extremely dry and hot, which the vines withstood thanks to the good water reserves resulting from the spring rains, which allowed the vineyard to remain robust, with good vegetation and vigorous shoots.
Por Tí
Por Tí’ is a coupage of Monastrell and Cabernet Sauvignon, made by hand harvesting selected grapes from the property’s vineyards, located at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level.
After 18 months of aging in new French and American oak barrels, the result is a modern, rich, powerful wine with a powerful structure, sweet to the touch, tasty… where concentration is combined with the expression of the best selected fruit.
Alma de Luzón
In this blend of Monastrell and Syrah, no selected yeasts are used and a minimum of human intervention is used.
The grapes are harvested by hand and an exquisite selection of clusters is carried out. Alcoholic fermentation is carried out in 500 kg. barrels and then transferred to new French and American oak barrels, where malolactic fermentation and aging takes place for 22 months, after which it will spend 16 months in the bottle before being released to the market.