Basa Vino Blanco 2022

COMPAÑIA DE VINOS TELMO RODRIGUEZ

Basa Vino Blanco
2022

$18.25

* Retail price including taxes and service fees if applicable
Service fees
$ 0.00
Product code
10264018
Format
12 x 750ml
Listing type
SAQ Continuous Supply
Status
Available
Type of product
Still wine
Licensee price
$17.10
Country
Spain
Regulated designation
Denominación de origen (DO)
Region
Castilla y Leon
Appellation
Rueda
Varietal(s)
Verdejo 90 %
Viura 10 %
Alcohol percentage
13%
Colour
White
Sugar
Dry
Producer's website

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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Production notes

Basa, Rueda
The Verdejo, Viura and Sauvignon Blanc blend has year after year been named one of Spain’s and the world’s great white wine values. The intense floral aromatics, freshness and wonderful texture are the result of the high elevation plantings in lime and gravel soils, with good drainage, that give rise to some of the best quality white wine grapes in Spain.

Tasting notes

Readers looking for a tasty, value-priced white should check out the Basa. Produced and fermented and aged in tank, it is a crisp, crunchy, medium-bodied, dry white offering notes of grapefruit, white currants, and flowers as well as excellent underlying acidity.