COMPAÑIA DE VINOS TELMO RODRIGUEZ
Branco de Santa Cruz
2016
- Organic
$44.00
Out of stock
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
Terrassed vineyards located at 400 to 600 meters asl above the Bibei river, on steep slopes facing south, west and northwest. Shallow, acidic and coarse textured soils developed from granites (granodiorites, magmatic rock). Low fertility. Different plots of the village of Santa Cruz.
Production notes
Organically farmed vineyards. Bushvines. Manual harvest in boxes. Native yeasts. Vinification and aging for 10 months in barrels and foudres of different capacities.
Tasting notes
A superbly textural wine with lovely clarity, minerality and line. There's honey, wattle and crunchy gravel soil twitched up with a bunch of wild herbs. The palate has good body but lengthens beautifully, phenolics are both constructive and controlled and the whole thing is beguiling and gently expansive (but not insistent).