Viña del Olivo aims to be the maximum expression of Contino’s terroir as it is one of the few calcareous clay estates in Contino (the others are primarily alluvial) with a very high content of active limestone, a 5 to 7% south-facing slope, dry land, no herbicides, and organic fertilisation. A mineral wine for ageing that expresses its modernity with harmony and balance.
Our Contino Viña del Olivo is produced from the best bunches of grapes hand-harvested from our Olivo vineyard (a 700-year-old vineyard). The grapes are carefully harvested in crates and sorted meticulously upon arrival at the winery. Next, the grapes are fermented in 100-hectolitre French oak vats at a temperature of 28-30ºC for ten days, after a further ten days of maceration. The grapes then undergo malolactic fermentation for 15 days in new French oak barrels (85%) and American oak barrels (15%). Finally, the wine is then aged for 16 months before being transferred to wooden vats for three months.
DISCOVER MORE
Contino Mazuelo
“Contino Don Vicente is the expression of one of our precious varieties at Finca San Rafael, Mazuelo. Through a meticulous viticulture, the vines offers us each year the freshness, acidity and complexity that characterize Contino wines. This time we have decided to capture those characteristics into a single variety wine; Mazuelo. Contino Mazuelo Don Vicente breaks with the schemes of a forgotten variety, although including a common factor that characterizes the wine, the seriousness of Contino”
