Verema Rosé
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2025
🍷 Vintage Profile
The 2021 growing season in Valencia featured balanced winter precipitation followed by a temperate, dry summer with marked diurnal shifts, preventing the desiccation common to warmer vintages. These conditions favored gradual phenolic ripening while preserving vibrant natural acidity, perfectly suited for early-picked varieties intended for crisp rosé vinification. The regional market recognizes 2021 as a classic, fresh Mediterranean harvest that produced aromatic wines of notable clarity. Best enjoyed young for its primary red berry profile and floral lift, this wine has reached full maturity and should be consumed without further cellaring.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Seafood paella, grilled prawns with garlic and parsley, fresh goat cheese salad with strawberries.
✨ Technical Specifications
Grown across calcareous, sun-drenched vineyards in the inland plateaus and coastal hills of Valencia, this vibrant rosé captures the bright Mediterranean climate through prompt, temperature-controlled direct pressing. Fermentation occurs exclusively in stainless steel tanks at low temperatures to retain purity of red fruit and floral aromatics, avoiding oak contact to emphasize crisp, immediate refreshment.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1885 by Vicente Gandía Plá in the port district of El Grao, Bodegas Vicente Gandía has grown from an early exporter of bulk casks into one of the Mediterranean's most prominent, multifaceted wine dynasties. Headquartered in Chiva, the house remains under fourth-generation family ownership, overseeing extensive estates including the flagship 300-hectare Finca Hoya de Cadenas in Utiel-Requena and Finca Casa Gallur in Vall dels Alforins. The viticultural landscape bridges semi-arid Mediterranean conditions with continental mesoclimates situated at elevations up to 800 meters, rooted in poor, gravelly limestone and alluvial topsoils that nurture indigenous Bobal and Monastrell alongside international cultivars. Certified under the Sustainable Wineries for Climate Protection framework, Gandía blends stainless-steel temperature-controlled vinification with heritage clay tinaja aging and selected oak maturation. Known historically for pioneering bottled Valencian wine through Castillo de Liria in 1971, its benchmark portfolio includes the Ceramic series, Ceremonia, Generación 1, and expressive, vibrant rosés such as Verema Rosé and Bobal Rosa.
🍇 Grapes
Bobal
🍷 ABV
12.5%