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2024 Viña en Rosa - Solar Fortún

The Solar Fortún Estate:

Founded: 2010 by the López family

Vineyard location, elevation and grape varieties: 

 - Valle de Guadalupe - 1,000 ft - estate vines - (Petit Verdot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Mourvedre, Syrah). The site is dominated by sandy soils with a small amount of clay. Organically farmed. 

Winemaker: Enologist Santiago López Viana (Mexican born, trained at UC Davis, lives in Valle de Guadalupe)

Region and grape source: All grapes are estate grown in Valle de Guadalupe approximately 18 miles from the Pacific. They currently have 18.5 acres under vine

- Solar Fortún is a family owned and operated winery that was officially established in 2010 and planted 3 years prior in 2007. Coming from a background in theoretical and natural physics, (both of Santiago's parents are professors of physics at the university in Ensenada), the plan for this estate was methodical and precise, with no consideration left unattended.

Notes: 

- Fully sustainable, (and idyllic to the point of being completely transportive) the only non-renewable resource they use in their operation is the fuel that runs their tractor. As the harvests, and almost all the work in the vineyards is done by hand, it doesn't get used much!

- All grapes are estate grown in an organically farmed vineyard site approximately 15 miles from the Pacific in a part of the valley called Francisco Zarco. The confining walls are so tight at this point that they create more of a canyon than a valley. This creates a unique micro-climate where the temperature differential between the mountainsides and the valley floor generates a nearly constant breeze eliminating the risk of cluster rot or powdery mildew. This cooler climate also plays a role in the high natural acidity of these wines and their very prevalent floral components.

 

Total production: 18.5 acres under vine, 10 wines, 4,000 cases

2024 Viña en Rosa - Solar Fortún

$24.99Price
Arriving April 1st
  • Tasting Notes and Drinking Window:

    Always a delight, the 2024 100% Mourvèdre rosé from Solar Fortún delivers the fresh spender of what many would refer to as a perfect growing season. A long cold winter with lots of rainfall (almost double the average) allowed the vines to go fully dormant and was followed by a moderately warm summer where the grapes benefited from a longer hang time that usual allowing maximum diversity of phenolic expression. 

    500 cases made 

    Drinking window - Upon release - 3 years

  • Vintage:

    2024

  • Blend:

    100% Mourvedre

  • Producer:

    Solar Fortún

  • Winemaker:

    Santiago Lopez - Mexican 

  • Vineyards:

    Valle de Guadalupe, ejido de Francisco Zarco - Estate vineyards in a tight valley with sandy soils of decomposed sandstone and some red clay. Vines were planted in 2007 and the elevation is 1,100 ft. 

  • Winemaking:

    Pulled off the skins after 8 hours of contact, then fermented for 2 weeks and aged in stainless steel tanks.
    Sulfites: 30 ppm 

  • Farming:

    Organic, sustainable

  • Alcohol:

    11.8%

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