Wine Coleccion 125 Rosado Navarra DO 2005
Reviews of purchase Coleccion 125 Rosado Navarra DO 2005
Tasting Notes
The wine has a beautiful vibrant pink color with a red tint.
The wine has a strong, well-balanced and complex flavor with woody notes in a long aftertaste.
Wine Coleccion 125 Rosado shows fresh aroma with notes of red fruits, a subtle hint of smoke, attractive notes of spice and white peaches.
Wine Kolekson 125 Rosado goes well with meat dishes and cold snacks, pasta, paella, salads and chicken.
Interesting Facts
A wonderful rosé Coleccion 125 Rosado is made from the best red grapes, is aged on the lees for 6 months with weekly batonazhem. Wines range Colección 125 were first presented in 1985, their release is timed to the 125th anniversary of the start of exports of wines Bodegas Chivite in 1860. In 2009, the entire line Colección 125 was included in the "Top 10 Wines of Navarra" in the wine guide Repsol.
Winery Bodegas Chivite was founded in 1647, Chivite is one of the oldest wine producing dynasties in Spain for more than 11 generations of a family involved in winemaking. Today, the company owns estates in Rioja, Rueda and Ribera del Duero. Maintaining the best of tradition and the latest technology, the company Bodegas Chivite became one of the most recognized and respected manufacturers and exporters of high quality wines of Navarre.
Save the document in the 17th century said that the Chivite family owned vineyard and winery pretty solid for the time dimension. Since then, winemaking traditions handed down from generation to generation. In 1860, Claudio Chivite Randez using the crisis caused by the epidemic oidium on French vineyards began exporting wine to meet growing demand in the north. Later, in the 19th century, the house becomes Chivite in Cintruenigo hotel where people stop on the way to Madrid, so the name of Civita began to spread around the world.
In the 20th century Julián Chivite Marco, being a supporter of high quality, significantly improved production. Through his activity occurred not only in the modernization of the family farm, but also carried out administrative reforms, which resulted in 1967 was created DO Navarra, Navarra region, and began to gain popularity. Julian Chivite by example proved that the priority for the red variety Tempranillo Navarra is, not Garnacha, as previously thought, it is in this climate Tempranillo is able to give rise to bright, modern and elegant wine. In 1992, Julian Chivite was awarded "for his services in agriculture" and posthumously in 1997. Cross Charles III.
In 1988, work was carried out on the reconstruction and introduced modern technologies in production. At the same time the family gets an estate Señorío de Arínzano (Señora de Arinsal) in Aberin. In 1998, the winery was bought Vina Salceda (Vina Salceda) and vineyards in Rioja Alavesa, and three years later the estate La Horra (La Orr) in Ribera del Duero.
The family currently owns Chivite 600 hectares of vineyards. Chivite wines are traditionally in high demand, exports of about 70%.