Winery / Producer: Bodegas Antídoto (Cult project founded by Bertrand Sourdais and David Hernando, focused on exalting the Soria terroir through artisanal, organic, minimal-intervention viticulture and the rescue of centenarian vineyards).

Specific Origin: San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria, D.O. Ribera del Duero, Spain.

Varietal Composition: Traditional blend of Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) and a subtle contribution of Albillo Mayor.

Terroir and Identity: Vineyards located at an extreme altitude of between 950 and 1,000 meters above sea level. The soils are mainly composed of sand with abundant calcareous pebbles and limestone bedrock. This extreme continental climate generates monumental structural acidity and crisp minerality.

Vinification and Aging: Manual harvest in small boxes with double sorting table. Direct and gentle pressing of whole clusters without prior maceration. Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation carried out with indigenous yeasts in used 600-liter French oak barrels. Aged on its fine lees for several months in the same barrels, gaining fatty volume without masking the pure fruit of the vine.

Style: Gastronomic aged rosé, dry, structured, dense, profoundly mineral, floral, and with aristocratic persistence.

Alcohol Content: 13.0% Vol. (Superbly balanced with the natural freshness of the liquid).

Capacity: Refined traditional design bottle of 750 ml.

SKU: ESP-ANTIDOTO-LEROSE-750

Appearance: Exhibits a beautiful and impeccable pale pink color with subtle and clean onion skin reflections and bright salmon flashes. Presents an elegant and slow glyceric tear on the glass walls.

Nose: Astonishingly complex, fine, and evolving aromatic impact. Opens with refined notes of ripe wild red fruit (currant, tart raspberry) combined with nuances of white flowers and candied citrus peel. As it opens up, a distinguished calcareous mineral bouquet emerges, hints of balsamic garrigue, anise, and subtle, well-integrated hints of fine bakery.

Palate: Its entry is majestic, broad, and enveloping, showing a silky texture of great density and volume. On the mid-palate, it is fatty and structured, impeccably supported by its fermentation in noble wood. Immediately, a vertical acidity and a crunchy salinity intervene, lending it astonishing dynamism. The finish is dry, extremely long, mineral, and markedly elegant.

Precision Gastronomic Pairing: Due to its imposing body, silky texture, and chalky profile, Le Rosé demands high-caliber dishes. It is the supreme partner for fine seafood cuisine: grilled lobster, scampi, spider crabs, and bluefin tuna tartare. It harmonizes exquisitely with complex Mediterranean rice dishes, seafood paellas, classic fideuás, and fatty baked fish (such as turbot, hake, or crusted salmon). Its unctuousness impeccably balances fine white meats, roasted suckling pig, beef carpaccio, and aged sheep cheeses. In high-end Mexican cuisine, it creates celestial harmonies with chiles en nogada, slow-cooked cochinita pibil, zarandeado fish, and seafood tamales with unctuous sauces.

Suggested Moments:

• High-Class Romantic Dinner: Its sensual, perfumed, sophisticated profile and silky texture set the formal table. An ideal wine to uncork with a seafood menu or signature cuisine by candlelight.
• Special High-End Celebration: The perfect label to commemorate memorable personal or professional milestones: notable anniversaries, high-level career advancements, boutique weddings, and meaningful reunions toasting with an eternal rosé.
• Gourmet Family Meal (Weekend After-Dinner Chat): Elevates Sunday lunch by becoming the ideal companion for brothy rice dishes, whole baked fish, white meats, or roasted poultry, delighting the most demanding family members.
• Exclusive Summer and Luxury Sunsets: Enjoyed at its ideal temperature during a warm afternoon outdoors on a fine terrace or private garden. Its vibrant mineral tension provides a sophisticated, fresh, and immensely pleasant long drink.

At what optimal temperature is Le Rosé de Antídoto Rosé Wine recommended to be served?

As a rosé with great structure and complex fermentation and aging in barrels, it should not be served excessively cold to avoid the low temperatures dulling its refined fruity, floral, and mineral aromas. The ideal serving temperature is between 10°C and 12°C.

Does this rosé wine have aging potential in the bottle?

Yes, outstandingly so. Unlike conventional rosés designed for immediate consumption, Le Rosé boasts the impeccable acidity of grapes grown at 1,000 meters and the fatty volume from noble wood. Stored under optimal light and temperature conditions, it will gain in finesse, smoothness, and mineral complexity over the next 3 to 5 years.

What does the use of 600-liter barrels contribute instead of smaller barrels?

The winery seeks noble micro-oxygenation that polishes the wine's texture and naturally stabilizes the lees, without contributing the intrusive woody or vanilla notes that smaller barrels often leave. The large format respects the purity of the fruit and the Soria calcareous minerality.

What does it mean that it comes from old pre-phylloxera vineyards?

It means that the vines from which this wine comes survived the 19th-century phylloxera plague due to Soria's sandy soils which prevented the insect's advance. These are centenarian vines with deep roots that produce clusters of concentration, balance, and fidelity to the terroir unattainable for young vineyards.