• Benjamin de Rothschild - Vega Sicilia Macan Clasico Rioja DOCa 2018 (1.5L)
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MACÁN CLÁSICO

The harmony of beauty

Macán Clásico emerged from the heart of La Rioja. A wine of yesterday and today that respects the most authentic and typical style of a prestigious region.

 A wine that searches for harmony by turning to its roots. The nature of its origins gives it a special elegance, a lingering mark, wrapping it in an unforgettable balance of sensitivity and expressivity.

Red wine wholly made using the Tempranillo variety. After the alcoholic fermentation, the malolactic process is carried out in barrels and in tanks. The ageing takes place in extrafine and fine grain French wood, the majority in new barrels and the rest in one-wine barrels. It remains in wood for 15 months and then in bottles until it is sold.

Macán and Macán Clásico are the joint vision that two great names of the wine world, Rothschild and Vega Sicilia, have of La Rioja. They are very elegant wines, where the harmony of their aromas and flavours show the authenticity of the land from where they come and its capacity to produce great wines.

Macán Clásico is very approachable and expressive, more pleasant and pleasurable when drunk with a marked character of the land from which it comes and a simplicity that makes it very attractive.

 Its co-existence is due to the desire to preserve the Bordeaux tradition to produce a first and second wine. Both always coexist and are treated exactly the same from the wine to the classification tasting. The different wine batches of the vintage are then separated, with the two wines being considered individually and showing the differences between them.

2018

DESCRIPTION

Macán Clásico is an exemplary wine from the Sonsierra region of La Rioja, steeped in centuries of tradition, knowledge and winemaking culture from the foothills of the Sierra de Cantabria. It reveals the terroir's freshness, fruitiness, liveliness, and delicateness, which provides depth and complexity.

A lot of hard work went into selecting, acquiring, and nurturing 100 hectares of vineyard for this wine since 2004, along with the commendable efforts in the winery since 2009 (when the first vintage was released). Furthermore, Tempos Vega Sicilia and Compagnie Vinicole Baron Edmond de Rothschild have jointly owned modern facilities in the Rioja DOCa region since 2016, where innovation, technology, and wine science converge.

Macán Clásico is made from one variety: 100 % Tempranillo. The grapes come from plots with alkaline sandyclay soils. We had to wait until October to harvest this more Atlantic-influenced vintage. It has a more elegant profile and is more fluid so we could push the extraction a bit further. We increased the impact of the new oak barrel by 10 % during ageing, looking to give the wine more depth and structure.

Macán Clásico 2018 is the purest expression of Rioja Tempranillo, having a fresher, subtler, and more elegant profile.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Alcohol by volume
 14 %
Variety
 Tempranillo
Average age of vineyard
 31 years
Vineyard surface area
 100 ha (San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Labastida, Ábalos, Navaridas, and Elvillar)
Planting density
 3,333 plants/ha
Altitude
 483 m
Yield
 4,000 kg/ha - 28 Hl/ha
Harvest
 Hand-picked in 12 kg crates from 2 to 14 October
2018 VINEYARD CYCLE

2018 was a fresh and damp year with mild winter temperatures and abundant precipitation, including six snowfalls during the first quarter, enabling the soil to gain significant water reserves.

Budburst was 10 days late, with abundant rainfall and moderate temperatures continuing throughout spring. This resulted in ripening being delayed by 2 weeks.

Harvesting was normal, running from 2 to 14 October

STORAGE, SERVING AND DRINKING WINDOW

This wine is suitable for drinking now, but it can be aged for up to 10 - 15 years if stored in the ideal conditions of 12-14 ºC / 54-57 ºF and 60 % relative humidity.

The recommended drinking temperature is 18 ºC / 64 ºF.

PRODUCTION

151,411 Bordeaux bottles, 1,033 Magnum, 51 Double Magnum, and 18 Imperial bottles.

YEAR BOTTLED

August 2020



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