L4GD4 Laguardia

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Vineyard parcels are on average 640m above sea level, but with more exposure and open to the Ebro Valley. Ripening tends to be the earliest among the different villages and the wines are the most elegant and perfumed. Laguardia also is the most approachable due to its lighter, velvety tannins and juiciness on the palate. The aromatic profile is always lifted, delicate and floral, reminiscent of wild strawberries and violets. 

Grapes from the selected parcels are handpicked in small crates and manually selected on a sorting table. They consciously do not use the optical sorting equipment for the fine wines, because manual, human sorting allows to keep the desirable diversity and subtle variation in ripeness and grape morphology, adding complexity and personality of the individual parcels of old vines to the final wine. Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation processes are simple, in small stainless steel tanks. Maceration times and gentle pump-overs are decided individually by tasting, looking for balance and the maximum expression of personality, but not for high extraction of colours of tannins. 

The aim is to understand and respect the expression of the unique village character, without excessive use of new oak or oxidative ageing.