Casas del Bosque Botanic Series La Cantera 2023

La Cantera, literally "The Quarry", is a Sauvignon Blanc grown specifically on a hillside block of granite soils that is slightly protected from the direct impact of coastal winds. This, combined with special pruning and a few winemaking techinques, helps us create a wine where thiols are the main protagonist. These compounds manifest themselves as tropical notes commonly associated with passion fruit, guava, boxwood, etc.

Casas del Bosque Sauvignon Blanc La Cantera

Vineyard located within the coolest, westernmost reaches of the Casablanca Valley. Planted in 2003 and 2014, equipped with drip irrigation. Crop levels are an average of 8 tons per hectare (3.4 tons per acre). Frequent foggy mornings, warm days and cool nights characterize the Casablanca Valley. 2021 summer period was particularly cold, with many cloudy days and temperatures rarely exceeding 25 degrees Celcius. A very unexpected rainfall happened at the end of January, bringing disease-threat for grapes. All in all it was a very late ripening season, characterized by great aromatic concentration.

After harvesting the grapes were crushed to a pneumatic press. Only free run juice is considered for La Cantera line. Juice coming from La Cantera block is submitted to juice stabulation, an enzymatic process in which the lees are stirred many times per day during 5 or more days at a controlled temperature. The fruit coming from Olivo Camino block is worked both with traditional white winemaking process and with cold skin maceration during 24 hours. All the components spend 2 months elevage over inactivated yeast, before being blended. After blending the wine was clarified, cold stabilized and filtered. First bottling session on 30 August, 2021.