Winery: Bodegas y Viñedos de Gómez Cruzado                            

Región: D.O.C. Rioja - Rioja Alta

Vintage: 2021                               

Bottle: 75cl                                                   

Grape Varieties: 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha

Type: Red Wine, oak aged

Alcohol Content: 14,5% vol.

Serving Temperature: 16º - 18º

Production: 

The Gómez Cruzado Crianza is a classic Rioja wine, made from Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha from high altitude vineyards, fermented at controlled temperature in cone-shaped stainless steel vats, and aged for 12 months in mostly new American oak barriques.

Tasting Notes: Clean and bright. It has a complex, toasty, fruity nose as well as a balanced, harmonious palate with rounded tannins, fruitiness, and lots of smooth flavours.

THE WINERY

Gómez Cruzado is a boutique winery located in the well-known Barrio de la Estación, the railway station district in Haro (La Rioja), a unique place with a long history and a long tradition in winemaking, considered the birthplace of Rioja wine.

A bodega with origins dating back to 1886, that still maintains its family-business style while staying faithful to its heritage of the fine wine style of Haro’s Barrio de la Estación. Although the annual production is small, the winery has already established a reputation for the quality of its wines. Good credits go to the two winemakers and viticulturists in charge of the project, Juan Antonio Leza and David González, for all their input in running the winery and their vision in creating wines with their own personalities and characters that reflect the terroir where they come from.

Wines born from privileged terroirs, the grapes come from vineyards in the highest areas of Rioja Alta and Rioja Alavesa, from a mix of nearly a hundred different plots in three very different terroirs and three microclimates: Sierra Cantabria, Bajo Najerilla, and Alto Najerilla.