Bigardo
Wine Details
Kiko Calvo
Castilla y León
Toro
30-40,000 bottles per year
Extreme Continental with Atlantic Influence
750m
Deep sandstone with clay at various elevations
Organic
100% Tinta de Toro
2020
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Vinification
hand harvested with fermented with spontaneous yeasts in small tanks (stainless & fiberglass). Destemmed but without crushing the grapes, 10 days on the skins whole cluster with 4-5 gentle manual punchdowns a day for delicate extraction.
Aging
After pressing, it ages in mainly French barrels (225 and a few 400L) for around 10 months with zero filtering or fining. Minimal sulfur used at bottling (around 40ppm).
