Vinateros Santos Vila de Piedra

Viñateros Santos

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Castilla y León

Variety

Field Blend

This field blend of indigenous red varieties comes from the Vila de Piedra vineyard, located near Villadepere in the southwest of Zamora. The name means 'village of the stone,' which comes inspired from the vineyard's unique soil type. The wine is fresh, fragrant, and very balanced.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

El Tomillar

Soil type

Igneous black slate

Vine age1920s - 1940s

Vineyard size16 ha

PruningGobelet

ExpositionSouth

Altitude780m

Vinification

Whole clusters grapes are softly pressed, gently macerated, and fermented with natural yeasts in temperature-controlled concrete tanks, followed by malolactic fermentation in wooden casks

Elevage12 months in oak barrels

Harvest typeHand Harvested

More about
the producer

Viñateros Santos

Founded in 2020

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The Viñateros Santos wines are inspired by a shared passion for the wines of Zamora, a province located near the Toro DO. Drawing from her network built over two decades of living in Spain, Mayu Miller from Viña Franca works with talented winemakers to produce and bottle exclusive blends under the Viñateros Santos label. These special wines would normally be sold off to négociants or blended into larger cuvées. Even the label is a collaboration: the artwork is done by a friend of Eric at Coeur Wine (NYC), artist Liliana Velsasquez.

Viñoteros Santos wines are focused on cool-climate sites, complex soils, and old vineyards. That directed us towards the Castilla y Leon region, situated in the northwest of Spain. Castilla y Leon is located between Galicia, the Basque Country, ...