JamesSuckling.com Senior Editor Zekun Shuai talks with Santiago Deicas of Bodega Familia Deicas in Uruguay in regards to the 2020 classic, how Familia Deicas makes its tannat wines, and the place the Uruguayan wine scene is headed.
“It’s been a type of harvests like in 2018, the place we had just a little quantity of rain throughout harvest, however in 2020 we additionally had fairly low temperatures for a dry classic so it was a really concentrated classic in entire,” Santiago stated.
Santiago additionally stated their course of for making tannat wines had modified since 2015. “For tannat, what we like essentially the most is getting the tannins from the pores and skin, as a result of when you analyze tannat as a range, you could have an enormous quantity of tannins within the seeds,” he stated. “The seeds are way more tannic than every other seed in every other selection … and this focus can also be very excessive within the pores and skin of the tannat. So what we’ve been specializing in up to now seven years is extracting the tannins from the pores and skin and never from the seeds.
“In case you go deeper into high quality of tannins, the standard of the pores and skin tannins is far more candy and the feel is way more juicy than within the seed.”
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