Our Colombians friends, who are on holidays in Spain, have come to visit us. Since they are great friends we take this opportunity to open this Rioja wine which is considered “high range” due to its price.
This wine comes from Finca Allende’s winery, in the village of Briones, in Rioja Alta, only 7 kilometers away from Haro. This winery is the dream of its owner, the oenologist Miguel Ángel de Gregorio. He wanted to make a Rioja wine of “terroir” and he founded his winery in 1995. The wine is named “Calvario” (Calvary) due to the station of the cross which ends in a small mountain considered as the Calvary. The winery is located in one of the hillsides, and that is why the wine was called “Calvario”.
The grapes used to make this wine come from a vineyard planted in 1945 that it is not bigger than 4.96 acres of clayey soil with gravel and stones. The winery has a total of 103.97 acres: 1 acre of white grape (60% of Viura and 40% of Malvasía) and the rest is black grape (95% is Tempranillo – older than 45 years-, 4% of Graciano and 1% of Garnacha –older than 50 years).
The winery has about 2300 casks: 100 American and the rest are French. The annual production is 350000 bottles.
This 2004 Calvario wine is made with Tempranillo, Garnacha and Graciano grapes and it ages in a new French cask for 14 months.
TASTING
Bordeaux type bottle, dressed with an elegant label. Excelent cork. 14% of alcoholic level.
Sight: Cherry red color, the rim of the wine is ruby. Bright and clean. Several drops are dense.
Nose: It delivers an alluring perfume of red fruits (raspberry), latte toffee, balsamics and toasty new oak, wineskin and cacao.
Mouth: Strong but sweet impression, with excellent structure and correct sharpness with good fruity expression, notes of fine wood and spices. The final taste is pretty long with toasted notes and mature berries.
A round wine, sweet and very elegant: every sip is asking you for more… a great wine, the only disadvantage is the price: 65€. RPQ could be better.
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