L’Olivera’s 50th anniversary wine
The celebration of L’Olivera’s 50 years comes accompanied by a commemorative wine. This 50-year-old wine is a single- varietal Macabeo that encapsulates L’Olivera knowledge in the production of unique wines with this variety that, from the very beginning, has given us an identity.
A single-varietal Macabeo that is, in reality, a blend of different Macabeos, with different elaborations and also, from different vintages, with the aim of collecting in the wine, drops of history from these 50 years.
Terroir
ORIGIN: La Vinyeta and La Plana vineyards, in Vallbona de les Monges (DO Costers del Segre). Landscapes of plots characterized by dry stone walls, which delimit the vineyards and preserve the fertility of the soils and the efficiency of water.
SOIL: Chalky clay soil with variable levels of stoniness and depth.
CLIMATE: The climate is continental Mediterranean, with cold dry winters and hot summers tempered by the soft evening breeze blowing in from the sea that cools the night, particularly during the ripening season. The scarce rainfall is concentrated in autumn and spring (350-450 mm yearly).
Varieties
Coupage of Macabeos of different maturations, different preparations and different vintages.
Production
1,050 bottles (1,000 bottles of 75cl and 50 Magnum bottles)
Technical sheet
A Macabeo of Macabeos
L’Olivera’s 50th anniversary wine is a summary of how we have worked on the Macabeo from the beginning to the present. An oenological review of the knowledge acquired in the production of Macabeo, from the traditional production of the beginnings of L’Olivera through new, more current productions, with which we have worked in recent years. For this reason, the blend includes a portion (27%) of Macabeo fermented and aged in barrels, which evokes tradition; 40% of Macabeo that has been aged with new materials that we have been experimenting with in recent years, such as clay; 30% Macabeos breeze, a traditional method with which we are also currently experimenting and, finally, 3% Macabeos from different vintages (1993, 2000, 2009 and 2015), that we have recovered by awakening old bottles from our cellar.
A combination of past, present and future that is also like playing with different maturities and harvest moments, combining more mature Macabeos with a more complex profile with young and fresh Macabeos.
A handmade design for a very limited edition
Experimentation and tradition. A unique combination within a bottle of wine that is part of a very limited edition on only 1000 bottles and 50 magnums. At the winery we have tried to make each bottle a small work of art, unique and delicate. For this reason, the wine has a special label, the work of Catalan designer Claret Serrahima, one of L’Olivera’s collaborators since its inception. He and his daughter, Ariadna Serrahima, have devised a label that also links wine with craftsmanship, since it is printed using the “Super Veloz” typeface, created in 1942, and has been printed, one by one, on a Minerva Heidelberg mechanical printing press. A meticulous work that has been carried out at the L’Automàtica printing press in Barcelona, on of the few that still remain in Catalonia capable of this type of printing, and that makes each label unique.
Analysis
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Volatile acidity: 0.37 g/l
Residual sugar: 0.4 g/l (glucose+fructose)
Total sulphur: 47 mg/l
pH: 3.35