- Colour White
- Producer Premium Fincas Winery
- Region Rioja
- Drinking 2024 - 2028
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
2019 - Marqués de Tomares Rioja Blanco Crianza - 6x75cl
- Colour White
- Producer Premium Fincas Winery
- Region Rioja
- Drinking 2024 - 2028
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, February 2024
Marqués de Tomares is a family-owned winery, whose origins date back to 1910, and their white Rioja is a true testament to over a century of winemaking excellence. 70% Viura and 30% Garnacha Blanca, the nose has delightful aromas of ripe apple and pear, which is integrated superbly with the oak-influenced flavours vanilla and spice. Floral and silky, yet with perceptible power and weight on the palate, this is a superb companion to dinner and ideal for anyone looking for something a little different to try.
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Premium Fincas Winery
Chan de Rosas produces exceptional Albariño from vineyards in the heart of Rías Baixas in north-west Spain. Their ethos is centred around traditional winemaking methods with a focus on small parcel production which enables the true reflection of the Albariño grape. Purity, definition, and varietal expression sit at the heart of their stylistic approach. Bodegas Barón do Sil is located at Petín de Valdeorras, a small Spanish village in the province of Orense, in Galicia, belonging to the Valdeorras appellation. It is a family project with its own vineyards. The winery has modern facilities and technology to produce wines of the highest quality. The main variety in its vineyards is Godello, but there are also varieties such as Mencía, Garnacha de Altura, and minority varieties such as Palomino. Marqués de Tomares is a family winery, whose beginnings date back to 1910 when “Grandpa D. Román Montaña” began to dedicate himself to the production and aging of wines. Today, it is his grandchildren who continue this work with great success.Region
Rioja
By far the best known of Spain's wine regions is Rioja, which takes its name from the rio(river) Oja, a tributary of the river Ebro. Lying in the north of the country, along the Ebro valley, the area is sheltered from rain-bearing Atlantic winds by the dramatic Sierra de Cantabria to the north and west. The hilly vineyards are interspersed with orchards, poplars and eucalyptus trees. Rioja is further divided into three sub-regions - Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Baja. The first two are best regarded, with vines planted on cool slopes with clay and limestone soils. The permitted grape varieties for Rioja are tempranillo, which is grown extensively in Rioja Alta and Alavesa and will form the backbone of all the best wines, garnacha, widespread in Rioja Baja and used to add body to the blend, and mazuelo (carignan) and graciano, both grown in miniscule proportions. The key to understanding Rioja is the technique used to mature the wine. Unlike most other areas of Europe, American oak barrels are used which give the wines their characteristic soft vanilla, almost coconuty flavour. Historically the wines were aged for periods far longer than legally required, until all the fruit character had died down and the end result was a light, tawny-coloured wine dominated by oak flavours. Although there are still supporters of this classic style, far more producers are making wines in a more modern way, allowing the dark berry fruit flavours to burst through balanced by a more judicious use of oak ageing and often opting for French oak now.
