2022 Jose Gil El Bardallo, Rioja DOCa, Spain Zweigelt yet remains vivid and polished

yet remains vivid and polished

Juicy yet refined

This wine is a blend of three vineyard sites including our rare and special clone of Old Vine Sauvignon Blanc

late ripening grape varieties would easily reach a good ripeness on the coolest part of the Clos

some aging potential

2022 Jose Gil El Bardallo, Rioja DOCa, Spain Zweigelt yet remains vivid and polishedAs with La Canoca, the 2022 El Bardallo changes from a single vineyard to a paraje (lieu dit) wine and includes more plots in the same place to increase the volume of wine produced. It's Tempranillo with some 10% white grapes, mostly Viura. It fermented with some whole cluster fruit and indigenous yeasts and matured in 500 and 600 liter barrels. It's quite fruit driven, aromatic and reminiscent of the old carbonic fermentation reds matured in barrel,