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2010 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Bosconia
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GRAPE VARIETIES 80% Tempranillo, 15% Garnacha, 5% Graciano & Mazuelo SOIL Clay and limestone.
VINIFICATION Handpicked the grapes are fermented in large, very old, oak vats, without the addition of yeasts. Aged in barriques for 5 years, being racked twice per year and fined with fresh egg whites, bottled unfiltered with a further 6+ years aging.
THE VINEYARDS The El Bosque vineyard is situated next to the river Ebro at an altitude of 465m in Haro, on the south-facing foothills of the Sierra Cantabria range.
TASTING NOTES. This wine has evolved perfectly showing a deep ruby colour with shades of orange. Its nose is persistent showing tertiary aromas that give an excellent complexity to the wine. On the palate this wine is full bodied and showing a lot of mature savoury fruit, more rustic than the Vina Tondonia with dusty tannins. Its taste is round, smooth, fresh, full of body and persistent
VINIFICATION Handpicked the grapes are fermented in large, very old, oak vats, without the addition of yeasts. Aged in barriques for 5 years, being racked twice per year and fined with fresh egg whites, bottled unfiltered with a further 6+ years aging.
THE VINEYARDS The El Bosque vineyard is situated next to the river Ebro at an altitude of 465m in Haro, on the south-facing foothills of the Sierra Cantabria range.
TASTING NOTES. This wine has evolved perfectly showing a deep ruby colour with shades of orange. Its nose is persistent showing tertiary aromas that give an excellent complexity to the wine. On the palate this wine is full bodied and showing a lot of mature savoury fruit, more rustic than the Vina Tondonia with dusty tannins. Its taste is round, smooth, fresh, full of body and persistent