La Estrada - Telmo Rodriguez - 2019

75 cl

James Suckling: 98 points

Alcohol content: 14 % vol.

Grape varieties: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano

Vinification:

Fermentation in open wooden vats with ambient yeasts. The wine is then matured for 14-16 months in 1500-litre wooden barrels.

Tasting note:

Elegant nose with fresh red berries, black pepper and accents of lavender. Full-bodied on the palate with plenty of tannin, which is nevertheless ripe and fine-grained. Juicy finish with salty hints.

Telmo Rodriguez:

Wherever you talk about Spain's outstanding wines, the name Telmo Rodríguez quickly comes up. The Basque has a special talent for combining tradition and modernity.

Whilst travelling through the country and its rich and diverse landscapes, he and his partner Pablo Eguzkiza came into contact with traditional and unknown winegrowers who were full of experience and knowledge about their winegrowing region. Through joint projects, the Compañia de Vinos Telmo Rodrígez has grown steadily over the last few decades. They adapted to the diversity of the soil and the climate through the endless combination of different varieties and so the two learnt to respect nature, which was the basis for their path. Today, they see their task as finding enclaves, understanding them and giving them meaning again. Some old vineyards are being retained, others are being replanted with the idea of how the best winegrowers of the past would have done it.

Telmo Rodríguez has an unerring instinct for terroirs and grape varieties; it is not for nothing that his wines are labelled "top quality".