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94pts
2020 Vintage
94pts
2020 Vintage
95pts
Denominacion de Origen
D.O.Ca. Rioja
Location
The cellar is located in Peciña, a small hamlet north of San Vicente de la Sonsierra on the border with Ábalos
Varietal
100% Garnacha
Vineyards
Tejares vineyard, located in the upper Najerilla Valley in the village of Cordovín, for which the wine is named. Located in the foothills of the Sierra de la Demanda, with a northern exposition.
Year(s) Planted
1923
Viticulture
Practicing organic traditional viticulture. Head trained, dry farmed, goblet vines. Due to the small size of the project, all viticultural duties including pruning, leaf pulling, plowing by horse, selecting cover crops, and digging soil pits are all carried out by Eduardo.
Soils
Deep red, iron rich clay, with an alluvial texture.
Climate
Continental with strong Atlantic influence and moderated by the Sierra Cantabria mountain range.
Winemaking
The grapes undergo rigorous double-manual sorting, both before and after destemming. The whole berries ferment spontaneously in 3,000L French oak vats, with very gentle extraction via pigeage. Total maceration lasts around 20 days. Gentle pressing in a vertical basket press. Late malolactic fermentation (May-June) in neutral 500L French puncheon.
Aging
14 months in 500L French puncheon and 3 months in bottle in an 18th-century underground cave. Due to the low temperatures and high humidity, the rate of oxidation is reduced allowing Eduardo to work with low levels of SO2.
Comments
In 2019 Eduardo banded together with a small group of young growers to farm together and bottle independently Garnacha based wines from the village of Cordovín in the Alta Najerilla valley, in the foothills of the Sierra de la Demanda. For decades, the centenary Garnacha vineyards planted in iron rich soils have been undervalued and almost exclusively used for the production of rosé.