An Extremaduran winery has created a came with reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), an oriental mushroom. In order to get a product healthier.
Why did it come with reishi?
“In my search for a healthier life, I read that in Japan a man had used reishi as a food to treat cancer. It was incurable and his wife suffered from it. After a while, the doctors saw that she was remitting and they were able to operate on her. This led me to challenge myself to create a came with reishi”, He tells us Jose Luis Cruz, winemaker of wineries Leneus.
And it is that reishi is considered in Japan as a superior medicine ingredient essential to lengthen life. It is also used in chinese and korean medicines for more than 4.000 years. To this fungus attribute properties antioxidants It is also indicated for Fatigue and widely used to prevent and improve cardiovascular diseases.
A wine from Tempranillo
En leneus, a family winery of 200 Ha of organic vineyards, cultivate the varieties of Tempranillo, in red. As well Cayetana, Pardina and Eva de los Santos, in white. But this wine has been made with Tempranillo. They searched the market for the organic reishi to remain faithful to their elaborations. Thus, they found it in California, from where they import it freeze-dried.
“Once we have the wine, we macerate the fungus for two weeks, which is the time it takes to add its properties to the wine. Then we filter and bottle ”, he explains. Cross. Thus, we find a Young red wine of Tempranillo variety with reishi. It provides mineralization, so, although it does not have a barrel, it is balanced and full-bodied.
The wine is called Lenus Reishi, has a graduation of 13,5 º or with a Cherry color something lower than a Young Tempranillo. It is balanced and with an aroma of red fruits. They currently elaborate 30.000 bottles per month, which they sell in Spain, France and Portugal.
In short, it constitutes a small part of the 2 million liters produced by wineries and vineyards. Fonts, owners of leneus. A wine that is worth knowing, tasting and enjoying.
