Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024
The character and elegance of Ribera del Duero
Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024 is a luscious and elegant red from Ribera del Duero, crafted entirely from Tempranillo grapes and aged in oak for 6 months.
Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024 is a red from Ribera del Duero made with Tempranillo grapes and aged for 6 months in American and French oak barrels, a brief but well-managed ageing, designed to add character without masking the fruit.
It comes from carefully selected vineyards in Gumiel de Izán and La Aguilera, in Burgos, with bush-trained vines and an average altitude of 825 metres. They are plots tended with care, with modest yields, where green pruning, leaf thinning and manual harvest are carried out to keep only the best from each vine.
The winery Abadía de San Quirce was established in 1998 by a group of businessmen and winegrowers linked to the area. From its headquarters in Gumiel de Izán, it has committed to wines that express well the soil and the tradition of Ribera del Duero. Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024 captures exactly that: freshness, balance and a house-like personality, with that approachable edge that invites a return.
Consumption features
Pairing
Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024 pairs especially well with red tuna and roast lamb.
Serving temperature
Consumption time
General features
Type of wine
Region
Grape variety
Type of barrel
American and French oak barrels.
Type of bottle
Burgundy
Barrel aging time
6 months
Capacity (cl)
75
Alcohol content (% vol.)
14
Allergens
sulphites
Making process
Vintage
In Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024, the winemaking starts with a careful selection of Tempranillo from goblet-trained vineyards, worked with green pruning and cluster thinning to obtain healthy and balanced fruit. The harvest is carried out manually, with hand-picked bunches before destemming and their subsequent fermentation in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature, reflecting the care of a winery that seeks to preserve the maximum quality of the grapes.
Winemaking
In the winery, the bunches are hand-selected and, after destemming, the must begins fermentation in a steel vessel with controlled temperature between 26 and 28 ºC. The process is aimed at a clean and balanced extraction, without deviations, to build a red that stays true to the Ribera del Duero identity.
Aging
Rounded tannins and ripe fruit support a brief and precise ageing. The wine spent 6 months in American and French oak barrels, after fermentation in a stainless steel tank at a controlled temperature. It then rested for a further 6 months in bottle before going on sale.
Vineyard
Description
Abadía de San Quirce 6 Meses 2024 comes from selected vineyards aged between 25 and 35 years, planted in goblet form in Gumiel de Izán and La Aguilera, at an average altitude of 825 metres above sea level. These plots sit on sandy, calcareous and calcareous-clay soils, and receive meticulous fieldwork with green pruning, cluster thinning and hand harvest, which helps to yield balanced and expressive grapes. The climate of the area, typical of the Ribera del Duero, fosters a slow ripening and good concentration, while the grape variety used is Tempranillo, the basis of a red that accurately reflects the vineyard’s character.
Age
The vines are between 25 and 35 years old.
Viticulture
Viticulture is traditional and very carefully tended, focused on Tempranillo vineyards planted goblet-style in Gumiel de Izán and La Aguilera, where meticulous soil work is carried out to obtain the best raw material.
The winery carries out green pruning, cluster thinning and hand harvest, selecting the grape bunches by hand before destalking. This care in the vineyard is complemented by modest yields and plots situated at an average altitude of 825 m, seeking balance, concentration and the most faithful expression of the grape and terroir.
Tasting notes
Nose
The winery
Winery
Bodegas Abadía San Quirce was founded in 1998 by a group of entrepreneurs and winegrowers linked to the Ribera del Duero. That same year, the construction of the winery began, located in Gumiel de Izán (Burgos), one of the areas with the greatest winemaking tradition in the region, characterized by its century-old vineyards and extraordinary quality. From its inception, the winery has been firmly committed to excellence, producing wines that faithfully reflect the characteristics of the soil and the native grape varieties of the area.
Bodegas Abadía San Quirce owns 21 hectares of vineyards of the tinta fina (tempranillo) variety, distributed between the areas of Aranda de Duero and La Aguilera. Additionally, it manages another 80 hectares of the same variety in the villages of Gumiel de Izán and La Aguilera. All the vineyards are planted in bush vine form, following the tradition of the region. The vines range in age from 25 years to over a century, including pre-phylloxera vineyards planted in 1900. These century-old vines grow in numerous plots with different soil types—sandy, calcareous, and clay-loam—which allows for obtaining different profiles of the tempranillo grape.