Green-tinged gold. Displays heady aromas of ripe citrus and orchard fruits, along with suggestions of honey, dried fig and toasty lees. Sappy, energetic and sharply focused, offering concentrated tangerine and pear skin flavors that are braced by juicy acidity and a strong jolt of smoky minerality. Combines power and finesse gracefully and finishes very long and stony, with an emphatic echo of dusty minerals and ripe citrus fruits.
This impressive, dry, elegantly-styled Rioja offers scents of honeysuckle, citrus oil, white currants, and flowers. The grapes are hand-harvested and undergo two selections; a triage table and a must tasting, where they eliminate 50% of the harvest. They are macerated for 12 hours then pressed and placed into new French Allier oak barrels where the wine is fermented and kept sur lie for 4 months.
