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The year begins with a mild, mild winter, with almost no frost, which results in an early sprouting of the vine. The following spring is rather cool, unstable and with little rainfall but continuous. The summer was devoid of canine periods, it developed in the sign of moderation, with stable heat and climatology but without pronounced values. Finally, during the ripening period of the grapes, in late August, September and October, the instability returned, with intermittent rains and especially with the predominance of high winds, loaded with humidity and causing morning dews daily, with days always soft and mild temperatures.
The lack of pronounced heat and the higher humidity than usual has led us to less intense ripening and wines that are fresher and more aromatic, without the concentration of other vintages but with an absolutely splendid elegance and balance.
Very humid winter, with continuous and persistent fogs for weeks, as it had not been seen for years, even in the Espluga de Francolí. This in December and January, very cold therefore. In February there is a change of trend and a bonanza arrives with temperatures above average for the time, trend that is prolonged during March and April, causing a very early sprouting and a first accelerated development of the vineyard.
Despite the bonanza there is good precipitation during winter and early spring, the soil profile is all hydrated.
march
Rainy and warm
april
Warm but very irregular with two days root zero, the second causing a frost as not remembered in decades.
Even so, the vineyard continues its cycle advanced from the average.
may
Sporadic rainfall
July moderate heat, the usual, even with some cool day, some small rain but being July, remarkable.
September Moderate heat. Also very dry weather.
The year 2015 begins with a mild winter and occasional periods of coldest accent during the months of January and February, so that the sprouting took place at the usual time, early April; so far everything is normal.
The main feature of the year, however, is already defined, from spring, by high temperatures and, in particular, extreme drought, since the usual episodes of precipitation more or less abundant between March and April were all non-existent.
This tonic continued until the end of the vegetative period, October, to which date the rainfall accumulated during the year was ridiculous. All this coinciding with really remarkable heat points, such as in May and July. The rest of the months, until October, including, can be classified as warm, as well, but already within more customary parameters.
All this resulted in concentrated wines, mainly due to the small size of the grapes when they accumulated scarce water, in mature, warm, dense passage wines and friendly tannins, soft textures and great corpulence.
Winter: Very dry and generally mild with mild temperatures, except for a short period in late February.
March: Extremely rainy and unstable, cool and with continuous storms, fronts, mestralas, etc.
Spring: Very unstable, with more heavy rains than usual and fairly cold periods compared to average. Only two warm periods, one week in April and one weekend in June, in the middle of cold and rain, a snowfall in Poblet up on April 30, without any frost.
July: Classic, dry and hot, with torrid noon (no more than expected) and evenings with intense marinades and cool nights. Relative humidity normally high, evenings full of jokes and castles but not concrete in rain.
August: In the same tone as in July, warm noon and cool, wet nights. Mastery of marinade throughout the month. Moderate canyon, absence of heat waves, simply normal summer heat.
September and October: Warm and dry with not too high humidity, some rain always followed by mestral; therefore, a very favorable time for the ripening and health of the grapes. Generally two months very sunny and high temperatures, sometimes in summer.
The sprouting of the vine was quite late due to a very cold period in late February and a generally unstable and stormy March. April followed equally unstable and May with some already remarkable heat, forming a fairly typical spring, despite dry in general terms, despite the profusion of cold and wet fronts that visited us.
We arrived in the summer with the lack of precipitation as a general tonic of the vintage, which would not be corrected already during the whole ripening cycle of the grapes. Summer was quite typical, with occasional heat waves and cooler periods in the middle, with a rather long and late root period, at the end of August, with a certain repetition. assiduity lately.
Generally it is a similar vintage to the 2011, albeit less hot, but with the drought and very low production of the vineyard as key features. Under these conditions, then, we guarantee the health of the grapes, the good ripening and the concentration of flavors and textures, the basic ingredients for excellent quality.
The year 2011 is marked by dryness and heat and by a meteorology that took to its ends, already natural, erratic, changeable and unpredictable features. All plant development and ripening took place with almost no precipitation and very low ambient humidity. Beside this, the high temperatures were the tonic of the year, beginning with the winter, very temperate, and the spring, warmer than usual. The trend changes sharply in July, where the weather suddenly cools down and we have a long period, until mid-August, with the thermometer barely reaching 30ºC. Then, however, the pedicle, absent during its own period, bursts forth strongly and will last almost all of September.
The result is a very low production year (up to 40% below the previous year) but originating from very mature and very concentrated wines.
The 2011 vintage is provided currently sold out.
The winter was long and hard, with regular rainfall and two heavy snowfalls, which, added to an initially fresh and quite rainy spring, caused one of the latest vineyard sprouts to be remembered. In mid-May the weather was regularized and temperatures gradually increased until it ended in a classic summer: dry and hot, but without extreme values. The autumn, equally classic: mild and with some rains, but with a predominance of the dry wind of the interior that allowed to keep the grape in the vines until its perfect maturation.
The 2010 vintage is provided currently sold out.
The year 2009 was of generous rainfall and had to download the vineyards strongly, by over 50%, in early August, coinciding with the ripening.
Extreme temperatures in summer along with heavy rains early fall, delayed maturation until late October.
Finally on October 22 vintage was made of the three varieties, with Cabernet Sauvignon ripening voluntary, to fit in more homogenous conditions the other two varieties.
The November 25, 2010 after 12 months of aging in oak, the 3,300 bottles were bottled the 2009 vintage.
The year 2012, for the first time, Celler Vimbodí Tintoré sent a sample to the Peñin Guide 2013.
The score was 90 points, becoming part of the small group of red wines from the Conca who obtained this qualification.
The 2009 vintage is provided currently sold out.
The year 2008 was the first vintage.
Young vines produced their first fruit. in a year of little rain and not too hot summer.
The production was limited to one bunch per plant to ensure the quality of wine production in the first year.
Finally, 750 bottles of the 2008 vintage was bottled in November 2009.
The wine, adapting itself to the forecasts, was fruity, elegant and refined, with sought after mineral presence. It was the harbinger of things to come next year.
The 2008 vintage is provided currently sold out.
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