Tempranillo-Garnacha 2020
$55.00 RRP
This Tinto reflects Oscar and Eva’s interest in the deep history of Rioja. The idea is to blend villages, some which suit Tempranillo and some which yield great Garnacha; blending the cold limestone of the northern hills with warmer iron-stone soils from foothills in the south. This is a hand-made, high care Rioja Generico. It specifically references the significance of Garnacha in historical Riojas: varietal Tempranillo wines being a fad since the 1980s. It’s inspired by the legendary Gran Reservas of Viña Real: back in the 1950s, the key fruit for such came from the parcels Oscar and Eva now work.
Pure cherry fruit in a fleshy-vegetal register, open and round with great texture and line. Lifted by purple floral, it’s herbal, brambly, chalky thanks to the Garnacha, along with the cherry-tobacco expected of Riojan Tempranillo. Delicate tannin and earth linger in spicy acid ...