MANUEL MANZANEQUE ESCENA 2004

WINE TAST ING NOTES:

The 2004 vintage was a memorable one for Finca Élez, thanks to the delay budding that made a late maturation with higher difference of temperatures between day and night. Deep cherry colour, with a great layer and a bluish border, clean and brilliant. Aroma very intensive, deep and mineral-laden, reminiscent of the powerful personality of the terroir from which it comes. Emphasize his fruit (cherry, strawberry, blackberry and redcurrant) and violet, very well fused with the character that new, toasted oak imparts.

Balsamic notes. Cacao, coffee and tobacco. Very pleasant. On the nose is clean andhonest. On the palate it is fleshy, concentrate and round, with pleasant sweet tannins and a very long and persistent finish.

This wine is, without a doubt, the winery start with a very deep personality characterized by poor and cold soils at 1.080 metros of height. For these reasons, this wine has a great potential for aging and we recommend to decant, at least one hour before its tasting.

VINEYARDS OF ORIGIN: La Vieja - Elez Estate – El Bonillo (Albacete) – ca. 3000 ft. Altitude.

SOIL: Poor, loose and good drained, with clay-limy characteristics, reducing yields and increasing concentration and precursors.

VARIETIES:

Tempranillo 90 %

Syrah 5 %

Cabernet Sauvignon 5 %

YIELD: 40 hl/ha.

VINIFICATION: Cold maceration before fermentation during one week at 4ºC, in order to improve the extraction of primary aromas(flowers and fruits). Fermentation into stainless steel tanks at 24ºC during 15 days. Malolactic fermentation into french new oak barrels from Troncais Valley.

MATURING: 18 months in french new oak barrels from Troncais, Allier and Nevers Valleys.

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CHARDONNAY ESPECIAL 2007

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS FOR THE 2007 HARVEST: Cold and covered with snow winter. Cool spring with rainfall, making a late flowering. Mild temperature summer and the good weather followed, allowing to extend the cycle and the harvest until September 20th. Thanks a big thermal differents between day and night, specially cool nights, we have a long and complete maduration, it made improve the freshness and the aromas. Probably the best vintage of whites in our history in Elez.

WINE TASTING NOTES: 

We make this wine, only in greats vintage years, with a complete selection of the best vineyards and the best bunchs, so that we have only 2000 exclusives and numbered bottles. Special Chardonnay will be a great for laying down wine that it will surprise you now and after time with a complex and unbelievable life.Fermented and matured in the best French oak barrels during one year,it is a tribute to a long history of high quality white wines for aging, elaborated by this house.

VINEYARD OF ORIGIN: La vieja - Finca Elez - EL Bonillo (Albacete). 3000 ft altitude.

SOILS: Poor, loose and good drained, with clay-lime characteristics.

VARIETIES: Chardonnay 100%

HARVEST: Selection of our best bunch by oldest vineyard

FERMENTATION: 12 hours of maceration with the skins.Fermentation with temperature control, 16ºC,in new French oak barrel (Allier, Nevers, and Troçaise)

MATURING: 12 month in oak barrels over thin lees with “batonnage.”

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NUESTRA SELECCIÓN 2004

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS FOR THE 2004 HARVEST:

The 2004 vintage was a historical one in our Finca Elez, thanks to the late sprout of the vines, which brought a late maturation with more temperature difference between day and night.

WINE TAST ING NOTES:

It looks clean and bright. Cherry red color with violet edge. Clean and honest to the nose. Sweetooth, with red fruit dominant as raspberry and strawberry, clear minerals and flowers touch over a toast and spice bottom followed by coffee and cacao aromas. Pleasant, it is very well structured in the mouth, potent and fleshy with sweet tannins, well matured. Very well alcohol–acidity balance. Its freshest stands out. Good glycerine, and in the mouth you can find some of the aromas you find in the nose, redcurrants, lactic notes very well balance with the barrel balsamic; spice notes, toast, cacao and liquorice. Elegant and complex wine with a marked Finca Elez personality, with its pour soils at 1100 meter high.

VINEYARDS OF ORIGIN: La Vieja - Elez Estate – El Bonillo (Albacete) – ca. 3000 ft. Altitude.

SOIL: Poor, loose and good drained, with clay-limy characteristics.

VARIETIES:

Cabernet Sauvignon 50 %

Tempranillo 40 %

Merlot 10 %

FERMENTATION: 15 days at 25ºC in steel deposit following 7 days of maceration

MATURING: 14 months in oak barrel. 80% French (Allier, Nevers, Troncais); 15 % from the East of Europe and 5% fine American

VOLUME: 30.000 bottles

MANUEL MANZANEQUE SYRAH 2005

WINE TASTING NOTES:

Bright and intensive colour, ruby red with purple border. It has intensive, sweetooth and attractive aroma, marked by red fresh fruit (casis, blackberry and raspberry) and minerals and spice touches (pepper and rosemary), also liquorice, cacao and vanilla notes. It is fleshy and round at the palate with an aftertaste long and marked by complexity and very well fruit-wood balance. It has a strong mineral character. It is elegant, intensive and pleasant in the after nose. This wine is very concentrate thanks to the important temperature difference between day and night in the maturation period that our 1080 m high gives, and to the vintage quality. .

VINEYARDS OF ORIGIN: La Casa - Elez Estate – El Bonillo (Albacete) – ca. 3000 ft. Altitude.

SOIL: Poor, loose and good drained, with claylimy characteristics.

VARIETIES: Syrah.

FERMENTATION - MACERATION:

Fermentation at 25º C folowed of a maceration of 14 days.

MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION : in French oak barrel (Allier and Nevers)

MATURING: 14 months in French oak barrel.

PRODUCTION: 12,000 bottles.

MANUEL MANZANEQUE FINCA ELEZ CRIANZA 2005

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS FOR THE 2005 HARVEST:

Cold winter, dry spring and hot summer with marked thermal variations between day and night. These facts made a specially healthy harvest (just only one preventive treatment was necessary), a mature harvest but with a good acidity. One of the best vintages of red wines from Finca Élez, with good structured, sweet and oily wines, but with the typical freshness always given by the 1.080 metres of Finca Élez’s height. Rich wines in fruit with a good balance structure-elegance always present in our soil.

WINE TASTING NOTES:

Ruby maroon red color, intense, clean and bright. Its freshness and red fruits stand out in the nose (cassis, strawberry and blackberry), with balsam from the wood. Mineral and spicy light touch. It is fleshy, pleasant and oily to the palate, with good structure, well fruit-wood balance. It is large and round at the same time, very much elegant.

VINEYARDS OF ORIGIN: El Palomar and La Vieja. El Bonillo (Albacete). Altitude: 1.080 m.

SOIL: Poor, loose and good drained, with clay-limy characteristics.

VARIETIES:

Cabernet Sauvignon 80 %

Merlot 10 %

Tempranillo 10 %

MACERATION: Cold maceration of 3 days at 14ºC.

VINIFICATION: Fermentation of 18 days at 25ºC in different tanks separated by parcel and variety. Subsequent maceration of 5 days for Cabernet, 12 days for Merlot and 15 days for Tempranillo. 40% of Malolactic fermentation in American oak barrel and 60% in stainless tanks.

MATURING: 12 months in oak barrel: 70% from France (Allier, Nevers and Troncais), 15% from East Europe and 15% from America.

VOLUME: 80.000 bottles

MANUEL MANZANEQUE CHARDONNAY 2006

WINE TAST ING NOTES:

Very intensive aroma, where predominate the primary ones. Especially green apple and floral aromas. Citrus fruits notes (grapefruit, lemon and tangerine) follow of tropical fruit that predominate. Both very well balanced with the barrel toasts that gives vanilla, balsamic aromas and spicy (rosemary, thyme and fennel). The taste is fresh, pleasant and fleshy emphasizing the tropical fruit and the toasty flavours; sponge cake, bread roll, vanilla and butter. Very oily thanks to our work with the thin lees. It is very well balanced, fruit–wood and acidity–alcohol. Long and very pleasant aftertaste.

VINEYARD OF ORIGIN: Viña Vieja and La Casa- Elez Estate – El Bonillo (Albacete) – ca. 3000 ft. Altitude.

SOIL: Poor, loose and good drained, with claylimy characteristics.

VARIETIES: Chardonnay, harvest during the night

FERMENTATION: 12 hours of maceration with the skins. Fermentation with temperature control, 16ºC, in new French oak barrel (Allier, Nevers, and Troçaise)

MATURING 7 months in oak barrel over thin lees with “batonnage”

VOLUME: 30.000 bottles