Finca Museum Rose Cigales 2025

Finca Museum Rose Cigales

Region: Cigales, Castilla y León, Spain

Vintage: 2023

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Verdejo 

ABV: 12.5%

In the glass, the wine is pale pink in colour. Floral aromas are accompanied by hints of stone fruit, peach, and green apple on the nose. On the palate, the wine shows beautifully balanced acidity, with the floral and fruity notes lingering on the finish.

The grapes for this wine are sourced from several vineyards across the Finca Museum estate in the D.O of Cigales. The vineyards are planted atop a layer of pebbles that gather heat during the hot summer days through to the beginning of autumn, and release it at night, helping the phenols and flavours in the grape to ripen perfectly. These conditions, combined with the age of the vines, which are over 51 years old for the most part, mean that very low yields are produced, giving great quality and concentration of flavour in turn. The grapes also benefit from being planted at altitudes of around 800 metres above the sea level, bringing freshness to the finished wine. All the plots are worked manually, using organic fertilisers such as sheep manure. The vines are goblet trained.

The grapes were harvested by hand during the cool hours of the day to allow for attentive selection in the vineyard. They were then carefully carried in small boxes to the winery so they could be processed on the sorting table allowing for further selection. After processing, they were directly pressed. Fermentation occurred in stainless steel tanks at low temperatures and was followed by roughly three months of lees ageing to add texture. The wine was then fined and bottled.

Finca Museum are based in Cigales, a small Castilla y León DO east of Valladolid. As the name suggests, the winery is also a museum, boasting sculptures and paintings dating back to the 17th century. Although Cigales was once famed for its dry rosados (or ‘Clarete’), a result of co-fermenting field blends of red and white varieties, it is the Tinta del País, a thicker-skinned Tempranillo, that excels today.