Winery: Viñedos de Páganos
Region: D.O.Q. Rioja
Vintage: 2015
Bottle: 75 cl
Grape Varieties: 100% Tempranillo.
Type: Red, oak aged.
Alcohol Volume: 14,50% vol.
Serving Temperature: 16º - 18ª
El Puntido has been made in underground cellars, where it has rested in optimal natural conditions. The grapes come from a single Tempranillo vineyard planted in 1975. Low yielding. Grapes are carefully sorted both in the vineyard and in the cellar using a double sorting table.
Production:
Vinification traditional, 100% destemmed. Malolactic Fermentation in new French oak Bordelaise barrels on its lees for 4 months. Spent 18 months in new Bordeaux French oak.
Tasting Notes:
Intense aromas of ripe fruit: blackberry, dark cherry fruit, mineral, hints of sweet oak, spicy nose. Elegant full-flavored wine, mouthfilling and rich, with a gorgeous creamy texture, well integrated oak and mature tannins.
Notes: We recommend decanting this wine two hours ahead. It is a wine with a long lifespan; it can be drunk now or through 2035.
THE WINERY
Viñedos de Páganos is a modern winery located in the medieval village of Laguardia, in the Rioja Alavesa, at the foot of the Sierra Cantabria, a privileged enclave due to its climatic and geological conditions. It is owned by the Eguren family and was founded in 1998. The winery is surrounded by the exceptional vineyard of El Puntido, a 25-hectare south-facing slope planted with Tempranillo vines in 1975 and situated at an altitude close to 600 metres. The soil is made up of franc-clay and calcareous-clay on a deep, rocky subsoil and with a high mineral presence.
