Petit Pittacum Rosado 75cl

Petit Pittacum Rosado is the latest wine of the winery. It is made from grapes of old Mencía and Godello vineyards, located on clayey soils, and cultivated on steep slopes oriented to the north, on cold, clay soils, that result in elegant Mencías with a great acidity and great fruit. The grapes arrive at the winery in small 12-kg boxes. Bunch by bunch, they are picked on the selection table and crushed. Then, the vintage is vatted in a stainless steel deposits, where it macerates at a low temperature for two hours. After this they go through the bleeding or saignée. The fermentation takes place at a temperature of 18ºC for three weeks, trying to preserve all its varietal aromas. Later on it goes through a natural clarification. Petit Rosado is not a minor wine in the winery, nor is it a simple complement of the range, and by no means a by-product. It has been reflected on from start to finish, made like their red, in the vineyard.

For Pittacum, and in general for all the wineries of the group, the quality of a great wine is necessarily in line with an excellent raw material. Therefore, different places of origin in terms of soils, slopes, orientations and microclimates, allow them to attain grapes with quite distinct characteristics. Each variety is vinified separately and then they are mixed in the percentages that they deem suitable.

This is why at Pittacum, apart from the 5 hectares of vineyard in property, with excellent old vines, for the production of their wines, they also search for the best grapes around the different areas of El Bierzo. Just like with their own vines, they also carry out a complete follow-up up of these vines throughout the year.

They only choose old vines from 50 to 110 years old, located on poor soils and with suitable productions. A periodic monitoring of each vineyard allows them to choose the plot and the appropriate harvest time.

Green operations are also frequent, such as trimming, removal of shoots, de-leafing and thinning of bunches, when necessary. This allows them to keep a suitable microclimate for each plant, keeping the bunches airy and properly illuminated to favour their ripening.