LaOsa "Trasto" Rosado, Castilla y León, Spain 2023

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THE WINE: 100% Prieto Picudo. The grapes are completely destemmed, fermentation in stainless steel with the free run juice. Minimal intervention, native yeast, spontaneous fermentation. Delicate. Sangrado. Moments on the skins, this LaOsa wine is NOT your typical claret Prieto Picudo and more salmony purple in color. Visually this wine is evidently from a bluer skinned grape with its kind of purple color. Electric watermelon and pink grapefruit zest give off Strange Fruit vibes and jasmine aromas allure instantly. This wine has ‘chispa’ a lovely spark of flavor.

THE PRODUCER: Noelia de Paz spent the beginning of the century carousing amongst the family vineyards that her brothers planted in 1999, though her hometown region, DO Tierra de León, didn’t achieve DO status until 2007. It was there, during this time working in her family’s winery Bodegas Tampesta, that Noelia’s love and dedication for León’s native grape varieties, Albarín and Prieto Picudo, really flourished. She has since fallen hard and isn’t looking back on her quest to become the Queen of Albarín.