COMPAÑIA DE VINOS TELMO RODRIGUEZ
Altos de Lanzaga
2009
- Organic
About this winery
In 1994, Pablo Eguzkiza and Telmo Rodríguez, along with a third oenologist, created a Garnacha from old bush vineyards in Navarra. The wine was called Alma (soul). This is how the business started, originally under the name of Compañía de Vinos de La Granja. The name was a declaration of intent: it made it clear that the company would be producing more wines in the future and contained a homage to La Granja, the famous glassworks, a centre of outstanding Spanish craftwork that has all but...
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Product notes
Placed between 500 and 600 m of altitude (Valvarreniga, La Estrada, Ermita, La Serna, Cerezos del Pinto, Veriquete, Castillejo). Located on plateaus over continental Miocene sandstone strata. Flat shallow soils, stony, calcareous and silty textured. Low fertility and low water retention capacity. The 7 plots form 4 ha of own vineyards worked in biodynamic way.
Production notes
100% hand picking in cases. Fermentation in oak wooden casks of 3000 kg with native yeasts.