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Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto Blanco 2020

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Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto Blanco 2020
Producer Bodegas Exopto
Region, Country Rioja, Spain
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 21375-750

This exceptional, rocky white Rioja is drawn from two plots of old vines in the Periquita and San Cristobel vineyards of Ábalos, Rioja Alta. A blend of mostly Viura with some 10% Garnacha Blanca and the remaining 5% split between Malvasía Riojana, Jaén Blanca and Torrontés, the grapes were picked predominantly from vines co-planted in Exopto’s Tempranillo parcels.

 

Fermented wild in concrete eggs, the wine was then raised in a mixture of eggs, old barrels and large foudre as Puyaubert seeks to capture the mineral salinity and tension gifted by the rocky limestone soils and old vines in his highland vineyards.

Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto Blanco 2020

Reviews

“It has a clean nose of white fruit and flowers and a touch of pollen and dried flowers, chamomile and verbena. It's serious and dry, with some austerity in the palate. All of the grapes fermented together with indigenous yeasts, starting in stainless steel and finishing in French barriques (20%), concrete eggs (20%) and oak foudre (40%), the novelty since the previous year, the use of a 4,000-liter oak foudre that delivered moderate oxidation. It was bottled in September 2021.”
93 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

Reviews

“It has a clean nose of white fruit and flowers and a touch of pollen and dried flowers, chamomile and verbena. It's serious and dry, with some austerity in the palate. All of the grapes fermented together with indigenous yeasts, starting in stainless steel and finishing in French barriques (20%), concrete eggs (20%) and oak foudre (40%), the novelty since the previous year, the use of a 4,000-liter oak foudre that delivered moderate oxidation. It was bottled in September 2021.”
93 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

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