Sevi Guide 97 points.
The Verema awards, with several dozen votes from the forum members of the largest digital community in the world of wine in Spain, have crowned Bassus Finca Casilla Herrera this February as the best red wine of the year in Spain, competing with the cream of the crop of Spanish reds. More than 300,000 votes cast.
Red Wine, D.O.P. Valencia.
Region
D.O.P. Valencia. Continental climate with Mediterranean influences. Chalky-Clay Soils.
Grape variety
Bobal, Petit Verdot, Cabernet, Merlot, Shiraz & Cabernet Franc.
Tasting note
Colour: Intense cherry red.
Aroma: Aroma of great complexity combining fruit with wood, highlighting the red fruit aromas wrapped balsamic, vanilla, toasted wood. Elegant.
Taste: Luscious on the palate, large and and very long.
We pick the best grapes from low yielding vines from our own vineyards, which have just 4.000 plants per hectare.
The grapes are collected in special boxes, each one weighing 15kg. We only harvest in the morning in order to keep the grapes at an optimum temperature until they reach the winery. Once at the winery, the full boxes are placed in cold storage rooms for 3 days at a temperature of -10°C.
We select box by box and proceed to stemming and maceration in new American oak barrels of 400 liters capacity where we have previously removed a background of the barrel itself.
We introduce a stainless steel water cooled each barrel to soak in cold at 8°C for 4 days. Daily we sink the surplus in oak barrels manually and once the fermentation has started we close the cooling water for the own barrel during fermentation at a maximum of 26°C.
After 12 days we put the grapes into a pneumatic press to be gently pressed at no more than 0.5 bars. The development of different varieties of grapes is performed separately and then a minimum of 20 months in American oak barrels and 300 liters French oak barrels Allier type the final blend is prepared by filtering slightly before bottling.
