Siete Vidas "Parcelas Singulares" 2021 Cangas del Narcea, Asturias
Siete Vidas "Parcelas Singulares" 2021 Cangas del Narcea, Asturias
40% Albarín Negro 30% Carrasquín 30% Verdejo Negro
Aging: Fermented and aged in used 3000L foudre and large format barrels for 7 months.
Vineyard: Organic
Alcohol: 13.5% ABV
Production: 330 cases
Grapes: A blend of the three most traditional red grapes of Cangas: Albarín Negro, Carrasquín (endemic to Cangas and its rarest), and Verdejo Negro (Trousseau).
"From old vines grown in steep, slate soils. Fermented and aged in foudre and large format barrels. A red blend with a deep herbal quality. Seamless and balanced."
Soils/Climate: Vidas' reds come from 30-60 year old vines in the Cangas and surrounding sub-regions, which are cooler and have lighter slate soils.
Viticulture: Organic in practice from 16 plots and just 5 hectares across all the wines produced. Extreme viticulture in every way: rocky, slippery, slate soils on steep slopes with as much as 75% grades. One of four regions in Spain designated as “Heroic Viticulture”, owing to the difficulty inherent in this 100% manual grape cultivation.
Winemaking: Fermented and aged in used 3000L foudre and large format barrels for 7 months. Spontaneous native yeast fermentation. Low total SO2 (20 ppm).
Background: Visiting Siete Vidas is like traveling to the middle ages. Similar in many ways to Galicia, but more remote, Asturias is green and wet, with stone hovels and wood smoke always in the air. Cangas del Narcea and the surrounding areas were important viticulturally from the 11th century until 1950, when coal mining abruptly stopped cultivation, dropping from 3 million kilos of grapes per year to its current 100,000. Cangas native Beatriz Pérez is working to revive local wine culture. She cares for many of the few remaining plots of vines, entrusted to her by older locals, too old to tend them on their own, and is also planting new vineyards.