Last week, our prestigious oenologist Pepe Hidalgo, was checking the maturation process. This year has been especially dry, but the harvest will be high quality.

After nearly 18 months in French oak barrels of first quality, in which he held a weekly «batonage» the Cerro Gallina 2012 has been bottled at our winery. The more than 10,000 bottles of this exclusive wine will rest for 6-7 months before going to market, ending a long and careful aging process.

Parece caviar, pero es la selección de grano para hacer el Cerro Gallina 2013.

The selected and broken grapes, fall on a deposit what conduct them by gravity to the fermentation tank, where will be several days before to start the fermentation process.

Hidalgo checks the crushed grain. Overview of the process table cluster selection and selection of grapes.

The 2011 vintage of Cerro Gallina on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 this April 2013 was bottled.
Getting the latest step in a new adventure. After 7-8 months in the bottle, it will be ready to travel and carry around, Requena´s soul.

The director of the Cerro Galllina project, Pepe Hidalgo (in the photo), was there to finalize every detail.

Recently, in the «Taste question» section of Levante journal, it qualified Cerro Gallina 2010, was qualified as THE THOROUGHBRED OF BOBALES.

Also in the yearbook «LA SEMANA VITIVINICOLA», Cerro Gallina 2010 has obtained the highest score (94 out of 100), in Bobal 100%.