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Vintage sheet

2020

On the Cuzcurrita mountainside there is a small, very old vineyard, from which this wine is produced. Here each vine plant has a character of its own, marked by its efforts to survive in extremely poor soil in which the roots search for nutrients in the fissures of the sandstone bedrock. The vines are highly inuenced by the annual climate conditions and few are the years in which they achieve the righ phenolic ripeness, so this wine can only be made in exceptional years.

Vintages produced: 2013 and 2016.
Variety: Tempranillo.
Soil: Clay-loam with the peculiarity that many vines are planted in the cracks in the bedrock, while the earth around them is very clayey.
Viticulture: Organically-cultivated, bush vines over 70 years’old.
Harvesting: October 7, 2020 into 20-kilo crates and sorting table.
Vinification: Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation both in the cask.
Cask-ageing: 20 months in medium-toast and extra-fine grain, 225 and 500 litres French-oak barriques.
Bottling: April 2022 with no prior fining or stabilisation process.

tasting notes

A wine with a marked Atlantic character, with sensorial nuances which reflect very well the microclimate in the northernmost zone of La Rioja and which are faithful to its roots. It’s pleasant, wrapping around the mouth and filling it with sensations. It has a very good ageing potential for a long future.

Production 2020:
1.429 bottles of 0,75 litres