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Protos Reserva (750 ml)


By Protos
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Model # 1250018
Current price: $0.00

Highlights

  • Varietal: Tempranillo 100 %
  • Aged 18 months in French (80%) and American (20%) oak barrels
  • Aged 18 months in bottle
  • Serving Temperature: 16 - 18 ºC
  • Produced in Spain

About this item

Protos Reserva comes from vineyards more than 40 years old. Each harvest is hand-picked in 20-kg. crates and sorted on a table. Skin contact maceration and fermentation for 24 days at 28 ºC.

Its color is intense bright dark cherry color with garnet rim. The nose has powerful, black fruits with nice toasty notes, spicy, creamy oak, complex and elegant. Its taste is powerful, flavorful, toasty, round tannins, good acidity, fruity and spicy. Good backbone and lingering finish.

Try pairing it with:

  • Poultry: guinea fowl fricassee, grilled or roast duck magret, stewed turkey thighs, stewed or stuffed chicken thighs, roast duck, stuffed turkey, turkey stuffed with fragrant truffles, oven-baked duck confit, chicken fricassee and chicken in a sauce.
  • Meat: sirloin kebabs, roast kid, lamb stew, veal cheek, pork chops, lamb and grilled veal chops, roast lamb and suckling pig, fillet steak, veal stew, roast suckling lamb, tongue stew, stewed pig's trotters, sautéed veal sweetbreads, shank stew, grilled pig's snout, oxtail, veal ragout, kidneys in sherry, oven-baked sirloin, etc.
  • Game: quails sautéed or in sauce, stewed or garlic rabbit, venison stew, roasted pheasant with grapes, wild boar stew, stuffed pigeon, partridge in chocolate, squab with nuts and oven-baked venison.
  • Cereals and pastas: tagliatelle bolognese.
  • Cold meats: smoked meat, cured ham and smoked loin of pork.
  • Eggs: fried eggs with potatoes.
  • Pulses: beans with partridge and pinto beans with rice.
  • Fish: anchovy puffs with tomato.
  • Cheeses: the wine matches very well with aged cheeses such as manchego, roncal, zamorano, etc.
  • Soups: Castilian garlic soup.

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