Ossian Capitel 2021 Magnum
255.35€ (Inc. VAT bot. 150 cl.) / Spain
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The deep golden 2021 Capitel has a very expressive nose with notes of pollen and flowers, yellow fruit and herbs. It has a velvety palate with a dry, chalky sensation and a dry finish. The full clusters were pressed and the juice put to ferment with indigenous yeasts in 228-liter oak barrels, where the wine matured with the lees for nine months. It has contained ripeness, 13.5% alcohol and a serious profile and is mineral, tasty and long, with great personality. 1,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2022.
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Alcohol
14.0%
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Serving
Between 8ºC and 10ºC
Winemaking
Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts. Aged for 10 months in French oak barrels (50% new ones).
Description
In the forgotten heights of Nieva, in Segovia, where sandy soils mingle with gravel and reddish clays as if they were the remains of an ancient petrified ocean, Ossian began with an almost quixotic idea: to make a white wine in a land of reds, from pre-phylloxera Verdejo vines grown at altitude, under a climate of extremes. It was a gamble as risky as it was inspiring. Javier Zaccagnini and Pierre Millemann, driven by intuition rather than by the market, saw in this old vineyard a possibility of resurrection for Verdejo, far from the massive and commercial profile of Rueda. This gave rise to Ossian Capitel, Ossian's most intimate, radical and pure wine.
The vines, some more than 150 years old, twisted like bonsai trees punished by the wind and frost, grow ungrafted, unhurried and uncompromising. The roots sink into fine limestone sands that act as filtering fossils of the soil's character. Here, in VT Castilla y León but outside the rules of Roda, Verdejo is grown in a certified organic way, without herbicides or systemic treatments, letting the vineyard breathe as it has done since before phylloxera existed. Ossian Capitel is the most intimate interpretation of a single plot: El Capitel, in Nieva, at an altitude of around 900 metres.
Winemaking
Ossian Capitel is harvested by hand at dawn to preserve the freshness of the grapes. The bunches are gently pressed, without destemming, and the must is left to ferment spontaneously, with indigenous yeasts, without any kind of correction. There is no rush or artifice here. Ossian Capitel undergoes fermentation and subsequent ageing for about 10 months in French oak barrels, of different uses, on its lees, with light but constant bâtonnage. Prolonged contact with the fine lees gives it volume, tension and depth without losing the verticality provided by its altitude.
Taste
Ossian Capitel is more of an experience than a wine. On the nose it is restrained, as if taking its time to speak. Notes of lime peel, raw almond, fennel infusion and a dry salinity reminiscent of stones in the sun. Not lush or seductive in the classic sense, it is serious, austere and magnetic. As it opens up, a perfume of dry camomile, beeswax and a faint smoky, almost flinty, wet flint note emerges.
On the palate it is a wine that glides with a particular gravity: it is full-bodied but taut, full-bodied but never fat. The acidity is vibrant, sharp, enveloping. Flavours of white grapefruit, winter pear, lemon peel and a saline persistence that never lets up. On the finish, a hint of ripe stone fruit, but wrapped in a dry, earthy, almost mineral texture.
Perfect for those who enjoy a great Meursault or a Chablis Premier Cru, but with the Castilian soul of the purest Verdejo. Ossian Capitel is not drunk for refreshment. You drink it to think, to listen to the land.
Shipping to Peninsular Spain
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