2018 Miguel Merino Rioja Reserva Vitola

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  8/23/2022 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  vineyards planted in the 1970s looking north and use mainly french oak and only 1/3 new. So the idea this is the modern expression. 2018 was the freshest year in vintage. It was cold and humid and he loves it for old vineyards because if your yields weren’t too big it was fresh and vibrant but if you went for yield then it because a disaster he notes.
  
  8 graciano and the rest tempranillo to it.
  
  Why in this style? His father started with 94 and 95, all very good. When he came to release the 1997, his father got scared. So he is gonna release this wine under a second brand. So vitola. So there were two brands and sometimes they made one or the other. But then they took a llook and decided the vineyards were going a different way, so they split them off and the split the vineyards into a different wine and then they started driving the vineyards into a particular style as well. Just a bit of funk to it, with some power behind it, and again driving acidity. A bit of a half way to me and I kinda wish it was pushed more modern. But here it is.
  
  North and east vineyards and everything is going for the freshness.
  But for Grand Reserva its more of a Riberia style. For him it works. It needs to be very a round wine. The grand reserve is three coopers, allot of black fruit and deepness but still keep the nerve and freshness to it. Mature fruit but not cooked but vibrant nerve and for him its incredible. It needs to be something different than the big players he notes.

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