Wine Palacio de Bornos, Verdejo, 2013
Reviews of purchase Palacio de Bornos, Verdejo, 2013
Tasting Notes
Wine of pale yellow color with greenish highlights.
The wine has a pleasant, harmonious taste with fruity notes, refreshing acidity and a slight aftertaste.
Intense aroma of wine is filled with floral notes.
Great wine as an aperitif, perfect at any time of the day! It goes well with seafood, tapas, pasta, sushi, spicy shrimp.
Interesting Facts
Verdejo from the "Palacio de Bornos" - a gorgeous, well-structured, full-bodied wine with a soft texture and intense aroma attractive. The success of this wine lies in three factors. Firstly, the wine created in the region's number one white wine - Rueda. Second, it is based - a noble variety Verdejo, who has a great aroma with notes of herbs, white flowers and fruits, and created from it wine are bright and beautifully balanced flavor and long aftertaste. These properties and potential varieties could see in the mid 70s visionary Antonio Sanz, betting on varietal wines of the highest quality Rueda. Wise and talented producer - the third factor in the success of wine. Realizing that Verdejo has a high level of acidity, Sanz, to prevent oxidation, began to collect the grapes at night. Wine fermentation is performed in steel containers at a temperature of 16-18 ° C for 18-20 days, followed by bentonite clarification, cold stabilization and filtration.
Winery "Palacio de Bornos" was founded in 1870. At the end of the XIX century its wines were well known throughout the Castille, and in the XX century wine successfully entered the national and international levels. In 1976, the fifth generation of the family Sanz - Antonio Sanz - bought a winery and started a new history of the "Palacio de Bornos", built in Rueda new winery. Today the winery - one of the most famous names from the Rueda appellation, its wines are present in all world markets. The winery has 220 hectares of vineyards in the cities of Rueda, Pollos and La Seca. Soil vineyards consist of calcareous-clay subsoil and gravelly top layer with a high content of boulders, which gives them a good aeration and drainage - ideal characteristics for successful growth of the vine. Palacio de Bornos continuously conducts research projects in the field of clonal selection, rootstock and feeding on the basis of their experimental plots, the purpose of which is to find the optimal combination of grapes and the best soil for it in order to continue to receive the best wines. Positive results of studies on a small area in the event of success apply to the entire vineyard.
