Stats
- Grapes: Viura Field Blend ≈ 85% Viura - 5% Malvasia Riojana - 5% Cagazal - 5% Alarije & Garnacha Blanca
- Vineyard: Various plots from Rioja Alavesa
- Vine Age: Average: 52-years-old
- Soil Type: Calcareous clay
- Viticulture: Practicing organic
- Fermentation: Native & house cultured yeast - concrete (80%) and new and used 300 L French oak barrels (20%) - 100% whole-bunch pressed
- Skin Contact: None
- Aging: 3 months in concrete and French oak - followed by 12 months in concrete
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- pH: 3.17
- Total Acidity: 5.79 g/L
- Total SO2: 80 ppm
- Total Production: 666 cases
- UPC: 8437000693703
- SRP: $31.99
Tasting Note
This is one of those rare white wines that seems to express itself through texture rather than simply flavor and aroma. It arrives quietly, almost shyly, but unfolds across the palate with a calm, chalky grace, where cool stone, beeswax, citrus peel, and a whisper of herbs. There is a wonderful stillness to it, a gentle creaminess lifted by a thread of salinity that keeps the wine endlessly alive. It doesn’t seek to dazzle; instead it settles into you slowly, leaving behind the unmistakable feeling that restraint can be every bit as pleasurable as extravagance.