V1BN4 Villabuena

Style:Red

Country:Spain

Region:Rioja Alavesa

Bottle Weight:500g

Per Case:6

Vintage:2018

Variety:Tempranillo

Order Code: BV1BN4

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Villabuena makes a perfect example of the ideal, middle-weight, highly drinkable, yet extremely age-worthy Rioja Alavesa.

Vineyard parcels are on hillsides, around 500m above sea level, well protected by the Sierra Cantabria. Ripening is later than in Laguardia but earlier than in Leza, giving the most beautiful balance between freshness, elegance and good fruit concentration. It shows precise and pure berry aromas, finely grained tannins and an amazing flow on the palate, even when young.

Grapes from the selected parcels are handpicked in small crates and manually selected on a sorting table. They consciously do not use the optical sorting equipment for the fine wines, because manual, human sorting allows to keep the desirable diversity and subtle variation in ripeness and grape morphology, adding complexity and personality of the individual parcels of old vines to the final wine. Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation processes are simple, in small stainless steel tanks. Maceration times and gentle pump-overs are decided individually by tasting, looking for balance and the maximum expression of personality, but not for high extraction of colours of tannins.