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URBINA 1998 SELECCION BODEGAS BENITO URBINA DOC RIOJA
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| Harvest dates: | 16th October 1998 |
| Harvest method: | Manually |
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| Soil type: | 50% clay-limestone, 50% sandy-limestone |
| Age of vines: | 50 years |
| Varieties: | 95% Tempranillo, 5% Mazuelo and Graciano |
| Elaboration: | Classic with destemming |
| Fermentation: | 28 days maceration-fermentation at 28 degrees C; malolactic fermentation 10 days at 20 deg C after alcoholic fermentation |
| Macerations: | |
| Treatments: | Clarifying? With egg whites |
| Filtering? No | |
| Ageing: | 24 months |
| Barrels: | 16 months in new American oak barrels |
| Racking: | Five |
| Total ageing: | 5 years in bottle |
| Bottled: | January 2002 |
| Alcohol: | 13% |
| Total acidity | 1.50 gr/l tartaric |
| PH: | 3.75 |
| Cork: | Natural top quality cork of 44x24 |
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