Estévez Bodegas y Viñedos
RETURN TO THE ORIGINS
The Estévez family, originally from Valtuille de Abajo and settled in Mexico, dream of a project born of the return of a family to their homeland to take care of their inheritance. A centuries-old heritage that comes from the first vineyards that his
great-grandfather Ramón bought with the money he earned in Brazil.
Helios Estévez, businessman and poet who before emigrating to Mexico to meet his father, exiled during the Civil War, toured, could, harvested and even grafted much of the vineyard that today makes up the winery, promising to return to return to El Bierzo everything that this earth has given him.
This attachment and love for the land, Helios has transmitted it to each of his four children, who accompany him in this exciting adventure.
Versos of Valtuille is already the result of a challenge, a family dream and a debt to a fantastic land.
VERSOS DE VALTUILLE A ROUND-TRIP STORY
D.O BIERZO
our roots
Helios Estévez and his four children, Helio, Carlos, Nandy and Laura, felt they had a debt to their roots.
Versos of Valtuille is to return home.
It's back
"Our wine reflects the history
of so many families that are
between two lands."
Versos de Valtuille Joven
Coupage
100% Mencía from old vineyards
Vineyards
Vineyards planted in bush and located
on slopes at an altitude between
400 and 600 meters.
Average age of the vineyard: around 90 years.
Type of vineyard soil: clay with presence of sand in the highest areas.
Harvest
Hand harvest in boxes of 15 kilos.
Production
11.400 bottles of 75 cl.
Winemaking
After a careful selection of the grapes on the table, they are taken to stainless steel tanks in what remains the necessary time for a maceration. The alcoholic fermentation is carried out in a controlled manner, lasting around 7 - 10 days. After it, the wine remains with its skins until the discovery of the deposit and the transfer of the wine is decided by tasting.
Tasting Notes
Its deep red color with violet tones denotes its youth. Elegant and fresh on the nose, in which the intense aromas of ripe red fruit and wild fruits, characteristic of El Bierzo, predominate. It has a pleasant, unctuous entry in the mouth, with a soft and structured tannin that leads to a warm and persistent finish.
Versos Cepas Centenarias
Coupage
100% Mencía from old vineyards
Vineyards
Vineyards planted in vases and located
on slopes at an altitude between
400 and 600 meters.
Vineyard age: around 90 years.
Type of vineyard soil: clay with presence of sand in the highest areas.
Harvest
Hand harvest in boxes of 15 kilos.
Production
12.000 bottles of 75 cl.
Aging
4 months in French oak barrels and
12 months in bottle.
Silver Medal Decanter 2018
Winemaking
After a careful selection of grapes on a table, it is conducted to stainless steel tanks where it performs a pre-fermentative maceration at low temperature for 5 days. Later a controlled alcoholic fermentation takes place between 18-21ºC during 7-10 days. After this, post-fermentation maceration is carried out for about 10 days, with the subsequent discovery. After the malolactic fermentation, the wine is introduced in French oak barrels of 228 liters for aging for a period of approximately 4 months. After this aging, the wine that is bottled in the bottle is bottled for a minimum period of two months.
Tasting Notes
With an intense cherry red color and violet reflections. Clean, bright. With good intensity on the nose, where aromas of ripe red fruits combined with mineral touches and black licorice emerge, as well as the presence of smoked and balsamic notes. The palate is structured and unctuous, with pleasant oak leaves. Fresh, balanced and with good persistence.
Versos 15 Meses
Coupage
100% Mencía from old vineyards
Vineyards
Vineyards planted in vases and located
on slopes at an altitude between
400 and 600 meters.
Vineyard age: around 90 years.
Type of vineyard soil: clay with presence of sand in the highest areas.
Harvest
Hand harvest in boxes of 15 kilos.
Production
5.300 bottles of 75 cl.
Winemaking
The grapes come from small selected places, and are transported to cellar in boxes. After a selection of grapes on the table, it is subjected to a destalking and a light crushing, making a fermentative premaceration for 4 or 5 days in French oak deposits. Once the malolactic is finished, the wine is introduced in new French oak barrels for 15 months. Once bottled, the wine rests in the bottle until it reaches its ideal condition.
Tasting Notes
Deep cherry red color of high layer, of great aromatic complexity in which they appear the very ripe red fruits like the cherry and the black fruit like the blackberry. Licorice notes. Well integrated wood with sweet aromas, nuts and balsamic touches.
Golden Bacchus 2018
Silver Medal Concours Mondial Bruxelles 2018
Versos Godello
Coupage
100% Godello
Vineyards
Grapes from a single plot with vines
over 25 years old.
Vineyards planted in vases and located
on slopes at an altitude between
400 and 600 meters.
Type of vineyard soil: clay with presence of sand in the highest areas.
Harvest
Hand harvest in boxes of 15 kilos.
Production
3.700 bottles of 75 cl.
Winemaking
Pre-fermentative maceration of about 18 hours to extract the maximum potential of the fruit skin. Next, natural bleeding and subsequent static racking are performed. Once the must is clean, we proceed to its fermentation at a controlled temperature for 15 days.
Aging
For 6 months, a delicate work is carried out on fine lees, putting them in suspension to provide the wine with greater unctuousness and sweetness in the mouth.
Tasting Notes
Straw yellow color with golden sparkles, transparent and bright. Intense, complex nose, initially citrus and tropical fruits such as lemon, guava, passion fruit, which evolve towards more floral aromas, such as jasmine, and pip fruit, such as apple and pear.
Marked presence of minerality. The palate is tasty and balanced and fresh.
Versos rosé
Coupage
100% Mencía
Vineyards
Vineyards planted in bush and located on slopes at an altitude between 400 and 600 meters, with an average vineyard age of 90 years. Clay soils with sand in the high areas.
Harvest
Hand harvest in boxes of 15 kilos.
Production
1.300 bottles of 75 cl.
Winemaking
To our selected grapes we make a delicate destalking and crushing process, these are introduced directly into a pneumatic press, by gravity the must is introduced into stainless steel tanks. A static racking is carried out for 24 hours and finally the alcoholic fermentation at a controlled temperature between 16 and 18ºC. Work with fine lees making periodic pumpings.
Tasting Notes
Pale raspberry red color with violet reflections, high aromatic intensity where floral aromas with rose petals, violet and jasmine predominate. In the mouth greedy feeling of ripe red fruits. Tasty and balanced wine with very good acidity.
hand harvesting
Hand harvested and later table selection.