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REGION
Rioja, Spain
GRAPES
Garnacha
ABV
14.5%
WINEMAKER
Bryan MacRobert
FARMING
Vegan Vegetarian
VINEYARD
The low yield, old vine Garnacha for this wine comes from vineyards in Tudelilla (Rioja Oriental) at 580m altitude on southeastern slopes of the Sierra Le Hez. The Mediterranean climate together with the altitude and stony, well draining soils helps to produce a complex, elegant wine.
WINEMAKING
After natural fermentation in concete tanks, the wine is aged on lees for one year in large barrels before bottling. The aim of the barrels is to stabilise the wine, preserve the fruit characteristics and not to flavour the wine with oak.
Producer
Winemaker Bryan MacRoberts
Bryan MacRobert is one of a passionate and growing band of Rioja winemakers rallying for a fresher, elegant, authentic style. He’s originally from South Africa, where he was Eben Sadie’s assistant winemaker before making his own wines in the Swartland. Bryan has a cellar in Logroño and looks after small parcels of old vines, often inaccessible to most machinery and ploughed by mule. He eschews American oak, and sometimes eschews oak altogether. His ambition is to shine a light on the single varieties of Rioja and how they behave in different sites, rather than in blends, because he passionately believes the intricate terroir differences inherent to the region are not being celebrated enough.
Link to producer page – https://www.macrobertandcanals.com/en/
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