Bodegas Proelio Rioja Reserva 2018
Grape Varietals & Region: A blend of 85% Tempranillo & 15% Garnacha from Rioja, Spain. Head-pruned tempranillos from our estate La Asperilla in Calvijo, together with tempranillos from Abalos y San Vicente in the Sonsierra and the garnachas from Cardenas in Alto Najerilla.
Calcareous silt of degrading origin from bedrock composed of calcareous sandstones for the Tempranillo soils in La Sonsierra. Colluvial origin clayey sand soils with a lot of limestone from accumulation by washing for the Tempranillo in Clavijo. Ferrous sands soils with a clay bottom for the Garnacha from Alto Najerilla.
Taste Profile: It has a cherry red color with cherry color. On the nose, intense aromas of black fruit, blackberries and blueberries, accompanied by deep aromas of fresh red fruit, along with creamy notes of coffee and chocolate with a vanilla bottom. The palate is intense, round and silky with flavors of black and red berries, vanilla, toffee and coffee, in the retronasal notes of vanilla and licorice appear, with a very long and persistent finish.
Winemaking Process: After a manual harvest, the Tempranillo is destemmed and the Garnacha is fermented with stems. The fermentation is carried out by indigenous yeasts where periodic punching and pumping over are carried out to delicately wet the hat. Light pressing and subsequent malolactic fermentation. After, the two varieties are assembled and aged together. The wine is then aged for 12 months in French, American and Eastern oak barrels with a minimum of 15 months in the bottle.
