Contino Garnacha was made from grapes harvested by hand on 14 September, with selection of the grapes taking place both in the field and on a sorting table once in the winery. The grapes were placed into a French oak vat to allow a pre-fermentation cold soak and until fermentation began spontaneously. This finished eight days later and the wine was then left in contact with the skins for a further 15 days.
The wine was subsequently racked to a 2000 litre Stockinger fudre and to twelve 500 litre barrels. Finally, it was aged and allowed to refine in a concrete vat for five months.
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Contino Graciano
“With Contino Graciano we seek the challenge of making a single varietal wine that expresses the typicality of this variety and on the other hand reflects the peculiarities of the terrain of the Finca San Rafael, whose soils and mesoclimate make it a unique wine”