Altos R Pigeage Tempranillo Rioja 2019
Rioja DOCa
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The flagship cuvée of Altos has won over 175 Golds and numerous top scores since 2006, the 2019 gaining 94 Suckling points, plus seven Golds and 97pts. Using old-vine Tempranillo and Graciano aged in French oak, it’s a serious, Grand Cru style Rioja.
£27.00 per bottle
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Wine Details
- Red - Full Bodied
- Fine wine
Spain- Deep Ruby
- Tempranillo
- 10.875 Units
- 14.5% ABV
- 750 ml
- 31 December 2039
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Intense dark berry fruit, tobacco, mocha and truffle complexity
Aroma
Blackberry, blueberry, oaky walnut, mocha, spice box and tobacco
Allergy information
Contains Sulphites
The Wine
Our Haut-Brion-trained winemaker, Jean-Marc Sauboua, founded Altos in 2006 and, all together, has won over 180 Golds, Trophies, plus many high scores. He works with the young Amaia Amestoy and Hector Gomez in the cellar, whose CVs includes experience at Napa’s Château Montelena, Contino and Murrieta in Rioja and Villacreces in Ribera del Duero. They made this wine from old-vine (80+ years) Tempranillo and Graciano, vinifying it using Burgundy’s pigeage method. This involves fermenting in open vats and plunging the skins into the liquid three times a day – hands-on winemaking that delivers great results. Aged for two years in half new French oak and bottled unfiltered, the wine offers seams of intense black fruit with spice-box complexity.
Our Haut-Brion-trained winemaker, Jean-Marc Sauboua, founded Altos in 2006 and, ...
Blueberries and blackberries; vanilla and walnuts; hints of refined, savory balsamic and tobacco
James Suckling
94 points
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