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When winemaker Ricard Rofes joined Scala Dei he set about tasting as many back vintages as he could to understand the history of the wine style. Upon tasting a complete vertical set from 1974 to the present day he found that those produced before the arrival of modern technology were more balanced, had aged more gracefully and were generally just better wines. In order to replicate this he did away with all the technology in the winery, bringing back concrete vats and removing the shiny stainless steel. To this day he insists that the only tech he uses is temperature control when absolutely necessary! True minimal intervention and absolute respect to the heritage of these magnificent wines! This wine is made from grapes selected from the finest vineplots. Each plot was fermented separately in small stainless steel and cement tanks at a controlled temperature. Maceration lasted about 3 weeks depending on the varietal and the grapes, in order to obtain a wine with body. After crushing, the wine was racked into barrels for malolactic fermentation. Raising this vintage lasted 18 months and for her the best French oak barrels were selected. The mixture of new barrels and one or two wines depending on what each wine asks us, new oak for more corpulent, first or second year for the finer garnachas characterizes the aging of this wine.