Spain

Rioja

Medium

Cork

Seductive vividness and mountain intensity frame ripe orchard fruit. Upfront juiciness balanced by precision and edge with tingling peppery notes, turmeric, saffron and tomato leaf, underpinned by intense earthiness of wet soil and leaves. So characterful and approchable, drinking beautifully now but with a long life in bottle ahead. Very long, with lingering white and pink pepper, nutmeg and cardamom. The 100% Garnacha Tinta fruit is from one site planted in 1950 and four other microparcels, at 700m-800m in Sojuela, southwest of Logroño in Rioja Alta. Only organic fertiliser is used and no herbicide, with minimal working of the soil. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks was followed by malolactic and maturation lasting 12 months in French oak barrels of 600L, 500L and 225L in size. IS

Grenache / Garnacha

Victor Ausejo, Garnacha Tinta, Rioja, Oriental, Northern Spain, Spain, 2023

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Seductive vividness and mountain intensity frame ripe orchard fruit. Upfront juiciness balanced by precision and edge with tingl

Victor Ausejo, Garnacha Tinta, Rioja Oriental, Spain 2023

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