Pago de Carraovejas

Pago de Carraovejas is one of the most well-known wines from D.O. Ribera del Duero produced by Bodega Pago de Carraovejas.
It is a coupage of Tinto Fino (91%), Cabernet Sauvignon (6%) and Merlot (3%) varieties.
The grapes are grown on an estate owned by the winery, the estates are scattered throughout Ribero del Duero and the grapes are grown with careful supervision from the technical team in the winery.
The Carraovejas estate is situated on the outskirts of Peñafiel, one of the towns with the most viticulture tradition in the Ribera del Duero, composed of limestone clay soils with red loam.
An oceanic climate with low precipitation, very cold in the long and wet winter falling to temperatures of
-10ºC.
The summers are short and very hot, reaching temperatures of 40ºC, however the nights and mornings are fresh.

The harvest is done by hand and the grapes are transported in small vibrating stainless steel trailers, arriving at the winery destemmed, whole and unharmed.

Pago de Carraovejas undergoes a fermentation in small stainless steel deposits and French oak vats with local yeast from their own vineyards.
There is an aging for 12 months in fine grain new and semi-new (3 years old) French and American oak barrels.

Pago de Carraovejas is clarified with natural egg whites and bottled by gravity.
It rests for 12 months in the bottle before it is released onto the market.

A wine that will delight wine lovers with a passage marked by the barrel. Very fine and elegant.