Txakoli TALAI BERRI Red

Txakoli Talai Berri Red

Talai-Berri has been a pioneer in the incorporation of technical elements to the winery, in the use of the most advanced systems: pneumatic press, temperature control, self-control laboratory. At Talai-Berri, innovation has allowed us, generation after generation, to maintain our essence and improve the production processes of our predecessors.

The production capacity of the winery that was contemplated in its construction was one hundred thousand liters per year: the purpose was to sacrifice quantity in order to achieve estimable quality. According to the winery’s philosophy, it is very important to control and master the product down to its smallest details, so that, in the entire process that goes from the care of the vines to the final result, the human factor (care, care, monitoring, control) is always on the technician and the latter does not overshadow the former. Tali Berri has all the characteristics of a family winery. Three family members work there (two winemakers and a business management graduate), as well as an agricultural technical engineer and two permanent workers for viticulture work.

It began with a modest production, 25,000 bottles, both because it was a newly established winery and because it was decided to only use vineyards that could guarantee the quality on which it had opted. Since then, new vineyards have been planted on their own land and next to the winery and there are currently vineyards in full production and others in the first and second year of planting.

ELABORATION
Pioneers in its production, it is the first and only red txakoli made by a winery from the Txakoli de Guetaria Designation of Origin. It is a single-varietal wine made exclusively with the native red variety: Hondarrabi Beltza.

TASTING NOTE
Its black cherry color stands out with aromas of marked forest fruit characters, but its perception evolves to aromas reminiscent of red fruit jam. Soft on the palate, light and pleasant, it has all the mischief and joy of a light wine, with a slight acidity that gives it distinction and gives it a lively character.

VINEYARDS
These vineyards are worked in a careful way that pampers both the land and the grapes. Today the entire Talai-Berri harvest is produced through the Integrated Production system, a grape production system that prioritizes methods that respect the environment, reducing the use of phytosanitary products to a minimum and reducing the waste.

In the first years of the winery, new plantations began to be incorporated into vineyards that were already centuries old, with the purpose of enabling new hectares of vineyards with native grapes: advanced management systems were established and new orientations were sought for the plantations in places in those that had been vineyards for more than a hundred years and that, for one reason or another, had been disappearing. In Zarautz, on the sunniest slopes of Mount Talai Mendi, is the Talai-Berri winery. The building is located at the top of a hill surrounded by 12 hectares of its own vineyards produced by the Integrated Production system.