REGION
Rioja, Spain
VARIETAL
Tempranillo
TASTING NOTES
The mountains of Sierra de Toloño, with their clay and limestone rocky soils, are perfect conditions to grow Tempranillo. This is Sandra Bravo's "soldier", the wine that points the way to some of the most elegant expressions of Rioja Alavesa we've encountered. Harvested by hand, in mid-October, the wine ferments spontaneously and then ages for 8 months in neutral barrels and a little bit in amphorae. It is bottled unfiltered and unfined. Spicy, textured, and mineral. -Importer's Notes
92pts - Wine Advocate
"The altitude and freshness of Rivas de Tereso were an advantage in the heat of the 2022 growing season. This old-vine Tempranillo really over-delivers at the price, with very little oak, lots of zip and freshness, succulent strawberry and red cherry fruit and undertones of pine and wild thyme.
(Organic)