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De Boca en Boca

With this collection of young wines, from San Cebrín’s cellars, we want to honor the popular culture, specifically those stories that have been transferred generation to generation, transmitting knowledge and experiences to the new generations.

Ancient stories and legends that, throughout centuries, have been adapting and changing, giving place to multiple versions of the same story, depending on who told it or where it was told.

La Rioja is a rich in this popular culture and , as it couldn’t be any other way, there is  bickering related to the world of the wine and the vineyard.

We have selected three of these stories, acting as an inspiration as well as a thread between the cellars’ three young wines: ‘Forget water, give me wine” for the red wine, “The vineyard’s treasure” for the rosé and “The fortunate man” for the white wine.

FORGET WATER, GIVE ME WINE

Once upon a time, lived a marriage in the village, the wife would put a barrel in front of the fire so it would be tempered and for her husband she kept another barrel with water, further away so it would be colder.

The wife would say to her husband:
-Oh, I can’t drink such cold water, I wouldn’t want to catch a cold! I like to drink tempered water, it is better for my soul.

But one day, her husband didn’t have any cold water, so he drank from his wife’s barrel next to the fire , and to his surprise, that was not water!
-Oh, clever wife of mine!
From now on you can drink the cold water and I will drink the wine!

Young Red

WINE MAKING PROCESS:

Manual grape harvest, destemming, squeezing and filtering for the alcoholic fermentation. This process is done with selected yeasts at a temperature of 24 º C to 26 º C for one week and then maceration-fermentation with gentle pumping-over during another week. The wine is decanted to do the malolactic fermentation and after the winter rest, only interrupted by the decantings that filter the wine, we proceed to bottling.

 







THE FORTUNATE MAN

In the old times, well maybe not so long ago, people would come down to La Rioja with their donkeys and horses to buy wine, by the time they’d finished they would have already tried different cellar wines and been given a skin of wine as a gift for their journey back home.

There was once a couple , on their way back home, already quite blitzed, the husband held on to the donkey’s tail so he wouldn’t fall. As they went on the man was hot and so he took his jacket off and left it on the donkeys back. The jacket fell from the donkey and when he saw it he exclaimed:
– Oh! look at that! a jacket I’ve found, I will leave it on the donkey!
A while later:
– Oh look! another jacket! How lucky am I! Up on the donkey.

This went on at least 20 more times, and just as they were arriving to the village , he found yet another jacket on the floor…
– My God! Another jacket?! I certainly don’t need any more! I won’t even bother to pick it up!

Once they arrived home, he took the donkey to the stable, the wife unmounted the donkey and asked him:
– Where is your jacket?
– You are asking for my jacket? we have at least 20 jackets on the donkey!
– But where is yours?
– When we arrived near the miller I did see one and nearly stepped on it, but decided not to pick-it up…

White wine

WINE MAKING PROCESS:

Manual grape harvest, partial destemming, squeezing and kneading of the grapes to obtain a drained must that is cooled and mud is removed with a Nitrogen flotation technique.  

The alcoholic fermentation is done with selected yeasts at a 16ºC temperature.

It is then macerated on fine wine lees from the fermentation during 2 months.

Gentle Stabilization and Bottling.

 







A TREASURE IN THE VINEYARD

A farmer on his deathbed called upon his children.
As a last wish, so his children would keep taking care of his land, he told them:
– My children, search in the vineyard and there you will find it all.

His children thought he had left them a treasure hidden in the land, so they dug the earth searching for the treasure. After they had stirred all the land , they saw there was nothing there.

However, the vineyard that year multiplied its fruit. And it was then his sons realized for men, work is their best treasure.

Rosé

WINE MAKING PROCESS:

Manual grape harvest of both varieties which are then blended when pressed. Partial destemming, squeezing and kneading of the grapes to obtain a drained must that is cooled and mud is removed with a Nitrogen flotation technique.
The alcoholic fermentation is done with selected yeasts at a 16ºC temperature.
It is then macerated on fine wine lees from the fermentation for 1 month.
Gentle Stabilization and Bottling.