VIÑA ARDANZA Reserve 2017

DESCRIPCIÓN

Viña Ardanza is the best-known brand of Rioja Alta , the brand that has given the winery the most fame and a wine that has continued to evolve over the years without losing its well-known properties. Three years of aging in American oak and its prolonged stay in the bottle.

Viña Ardanza Reserva 2017 includes 80% Tempranillo from vines over 30 years old from the La Cuesta and Montecillo estates, located in Fuenmayor and Cenicero. And 20% of Grenache from the La Pedriza estate in Tudelilla (Rioja Oriental), with a very poor soil covered with pebbles that offers a Grenache very rich in aromas and fine structure.

The 2017 vintage was marked by the historic frost on April 28, which affected some of the winery's vineyards, but not those located in Cenicero (tempranillo) and Tudelilla (garnacha). Although the amount of Viña Ardanza Reserva produced was lower than usual, the maturations were perfect, allowing the design of a red wine with great freshness and aging capacity due to the strong polyphenolic content.

The harvest was manual in boxes, with a first bunch selection in the field. The bunches are transported refrigerated to the winery, where they undergo a second sieve on the optical selection tables. After fermentation, the wines were aged separately: the Tempranillo for 36 months and the Garnacha for 30 months, always in self-made American oak barrels. 20% is new oak and the rest is from 3 wines. Five traditional rackings were carried out from barrel to barrel by candlelight to manually separate the sediments and avoid aggressive filtering.

From the Barrio de la Estación in Haro, La Rioja Alta, SA has stood for more than a century as an emblem of high quality and as one of the creators of Rioja classicism. Its catalog includes some of the most awarded Riojas, such as Viña Ardanza or Gran Reserva 904. Wines faithful to a traditional style, friendly, smooth and elegant. Oblivious to the vagaries of fashion, La Rioja Alta, SA has only needed subtle updates to remain at the top as a standard-bearer of the best classicism.

Viña Ardanza Reserva 2017 (DOCa. Rioja) is the ideal companion for roast lamb, red meats, barbecues, large game, highly seasoned fish stews, smoked and cured cheeses.

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