Octagono Rosado
WHY WE LOVE IT
- Organic, biodynamic, sustainable farming. Octagono wines are natural, unfiltered, fermented with whole grape clusters and skin contact. They are processed and bottled without sulfates.
- The Octagono Rosado is as fresh, striking and radical as any wine you’re likely to find.
- The grapes were sourced from a vineyard planted in 2005 on silty clay-loam soils at an elevation of 6,500 ft.
- Those looking for the most pure expression of place in wines made by natural methods with zero intervention have found what they are looking for here.
- Octagono is the only winery in Mexico using exclusively buried (locally made) clay amphoras for fermentation and aging, and along with a commitment to a completely natural approach use no electricity or even the most basic machines in the harvest or winemaking process.
- Drink now or within three years.
Varietal Composition: 100% Rosa de Peru
Elaboration: Grapes were destemmed, foot trodden, and fermented and macerated on the skins for 2 days before racking off the skins to rest for 6 months on the lees in the same amphoras before bottling. All Octagono wines are natural, unfiltered, unfined and fermented with whole grape clusters on ambient yeast, and skin contact. SO2 is never added at any point in the process.
Tasting Notes: Notes of red berried, cherry with a hint of hibiscus. Moderate acidity. Bold, but refreshing. Friendly to the palate.
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PRODUCER BACKGROUND
Marcelo Castro Vera, known as the “Crazy Professor” does things his way. He is a passionate man of strong conviction with a zest for life. After training at a Swiss hotel school and working in hotels in the U.S., he returned to his native land and opened El Nidal, a shipping container hotel in the mountains of Central Mexico. In 2016, he and his wife, Mukasha Dadajonova, founded the Octagono Estate in San Felipe, Guanajuato.
The winery is run mostly by women and directed by winemaker Celia Morales. Marcelo studied old-world wines, questioning the rules of conventional winemaking. He began making the wine intuitively, as natural and honest as possible. It is Marcelo’s vision grounded by Celia’s matter-of-fact practicality that produces highly regarded organic wines.