Marqués de Murrieta Primer Rosé 2021 con Estuche

The just-bottled pale rosé 2021 Primer Rosé, a wine first produced in 2015 exclusively with Mazuelo (Cariñana) grapes, achieved 14% alcohol in this year of slow ripening of the grapes. This comes from the same vineyard selected for the top red Castillo Ygay, from grapes that were picked on October 12, macerated for a few hours and bled into concrete tanks where it fermented at 10 degrees Celsius without going through malolactic to keep the freshness and a pH of 3.4. It was kept in concrete with the fine lees for five months. It has a subtle nose with aromas of talcum powder and rose petals, and it's delicate and elegant, with some herbal undertones. The wine is fresh and clean, shows youth and finishes tasty and dry. The wine changed in 2019, when they first produced it in concrete. 14,881 bottles were filled in March 2022. This will always be a small production, as it's the bleeding from the Castillo de Ygay red...