Protos Red wine
Vineyards: Plots with an average age between 30 and 35 years.
Vinification: Harvest in boxes and manual selection. Low temperature alcoholic fermentation (24-25ºC) with native yeasts from our best vineyards. Partial malolactic fermentation in new French and American oak barrels
Aging: A total of 3 years of aging, 12 months in French and American oak barrels and two years resting in the bottle.
Cherry colour with maroon trim. You've never seen anything like it. Aroma of ripe fruit with spicy tones, toasted with oak. Incredible feeling that will leave you in the mouth
Meats: grilled beef chops, fried lamb chops, roasted pork knuckle, roasted lamb, beef escalope, baked lamb, callos a la madrileña or with chickpeas, stewed meat, beef or veal carpaccio, beef tongue in sauce, stewed gizzards, pork ear in sauce, bull's tail...
Hunting: sautéed or sauced quail, garlic rabbit, roasted pheasant, hare with potatoes and rice, deer loin, stewed partridge.
Cereals and pasta: rice with partridge, chicken or rabbit, cannelloni, Bolognese spaghetti, meat lasagna, macaroni with chorizo, Bolognese noodles.
Cold cuts: boar's head, chistorra, chorizo, foie gras, fuet, jamón serrano, lacon, morcilla, morcón.
Eggs: in any of their varieties or in tortillas. Legumes: white beans with chorizo, Asturian fabada, pinto beans and chickpea stew.
Molluscs and crustaceans: Roman-style squid, stewed crayfish, snails, stuffed squid, garlic prawns and steamed mussels.
Fish: tuna with tomato, cod, bonito with tomato or onion, marmitako.
• Cheeses: the wine matches very well with any aged cheese.
Soups: chickpea soup, garlic soup, Castilian soup, Madrid stew and mountain stew.
Vegetables: stewed artichokes, broccoli with potatoes, pumpkin zucchini, mushroom in sauce, Brussels sprouts with ham, Russian salad, green beans with ham, vegetable soup and potatoes with cod.
Awards or Recognitions:
87 Parker points.
