The Story
This wine is characterized by a traditional winemaking. After destemming and crushing, moderately long maceration takes place, and, after alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, the wines are racked and clarified slightly for transfer into barrels. The wine spends a year in 30.000 liter oak vats and about three years in American oak barrels of different ages. During this time, the wine is racked two or three times which cleans the wine in a nat...
Vintage 2010
RIOJA 2010 – Excellent Vintage
The Rioja Control Board has officially rated the 2010 vintage ‘Excellent’. This is the result of a strict rating process involving testing and tasting more than four thousand samples of the 284.29 million litres of wine made in this vintage. This result confirms the high expectations prompted by the high quality of the grapes picked during harvest and subsequent winemaking process, pointing to the possibility ...
