Caballo Loco Grand Cru Apalta 2017

Bright, exuberant and intense red colour with dark violet hints. Complex and intense. Dark ripe fruits, black gooseberries, plumbs and a touch of black pepper, all perfectly integrated with sweet spicy aromas coming from the ageing in the French oak barrels. Great personality attack. Soft tannins and firm structure. Elegant, with soft spicy notes, long persistent and pleasant finish.

Poor granite based soils high in lime

Wire trained with light use of drip irrigation

Handpicked bunches carefully selected. Fermentation in small 4.000L open top fermenters were the skins caps carefully and manually handled, achieving gentle and complete extraction. Fermentation temperature is kept between 28°C and 32° C. Then the wine underwent a long post-fermentation maceration for 21 days.

Aged for 18 months in French (100%) oak barrels of which 65% were new barrels