Remelluri
'La Granja' Gran Reserva Rioja, 2015

Rioja, Spain

£70.00

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Remelluri
'La Granja' Gran Reserva Rioja, 2015

Rioja, Spain

£70.00

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SIZE:
75cl
ABV:
14%

'La Granja' is a truly special wine with terrific ageing potential, yet still approachable in its youth. A blend of Remelluri’s best fruit, it combines white and red varieties such as Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Moscatel, Viura and Malvasía. This is then extensively aged in barrel and bottle, to create silky, yet structured, tannins that perfectly complement the plush fruit and savoury spice. 

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Luis Gutiérrez - The Wine Advocate

The 2015 Granja Remelluri Gran Reserva is a blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha from their estate vineyards. It fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in barrels of different origins and sizes for 27 to 29 months. The wine shows superb, an undated style of Gran Reserva, using grapes from the three different valleys they have in Remelluri to create their grand vin. It has a classical style, but the oak and the evolution is slower, and the texture shows more of the limestone from the soils. This probably has almost 20% Garnacha, which to Telmo was the grape that was always there in Remelluri, and the grapes were harvested very late. Drink Drink: 2021 - 2030

About Remelluri

The Remelluri estate was founded by monks in the 14th Century, although there is evidence dating even farther back of winemaking on these premises. The vines changed hands a number of times over the years before being purchased by Jaime Rodriguez in 1967. In 2010, Jaime’s son and daughter, Telmo and Amaia Rodríguez, took the reins and set about making a series of changes to showcase the potential and diversity of Remellur’s different terroirs, and ultimately reclaim Rioja’s viticultural history.

The first major change was to cut down the production of Remelluri wines by one third, restricting it to wines produced from the estate’s own grapes. The two wines made from grapes grown in the surrounding villages are now sold under the label ‘Las Lindes de Remelluri’. Although Remelluri has always eschewed chemical treatments in the vineyard, they gained full organic certification in 2010.

Work in the winery plays a secondary role in Telmo’s philosophy, but great care is taken to make sure that each bottle reflects the terroir of the region: wines are fermented with native yeasts, each plot is vinified separately, new oak is used very scarcely and the wines are very lightly filtered and fined. 

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