Technical Sheet
Winery: Viñedos Sierra Cantabria
Appellation: D.O.Ca Rioja
Variety: 100% Tempranillo
Alcohol Content: 14.5% vol.
Tasting notes: It is a mature red wine with aromas of ripe fruit, blackberry, cherry, plum, raisins, with mineral traces, liqueur-like, and strong toasty aromas. On the palate it is powerful, tasty with well-marked tannins, great length, minerality and reminiscences of ripe fruit.
Serving temperature:
16º C
Harvest: Manual harvest in boxes. Rigorous selection, in a vineyard of exceptional qualities and very low total production, exclusively of those clusters that approach perfection in terms of structure, health, and maturity, representing only between 8% and 10% of the total clusters.
Integrated viticulture, environmentally friendly, minimal intervention, perfect adaptation to the 'terroir' and without the use of herbicides or systemic products, in harmony with the biorhythms of nature. Organic fertilization.
Production: Manual destemming and strict grain-by-grain selection. Pre-fermentative cold maceration for 5 days. Fermented in French oak barrels of 5 hectoliters and in 2 French oak tanks of 10 hectoliters. Punched down twice a day for the first 6 days. Fermentation with selected native yeast from our own vineyards. Skin maceration: 23 days. Malolactic fermentation in new French oak barrels. Aging: 24 months in a new Bordeaux barrel of French oak.
The Viñedos de Sierra Cantabria winery is owned by the Eguren family, a family with a great wine tradition for 5 generations in La Rioja, and also responsible for other well-known wineries such as Teso La Monja in the D.O. Toro.
Pairing: At Made in Spain Gourmet we recommend it with Red meats with sauce, Roasted white meats, Roasted red meats, White meats with sauce, Stews, Beef, Roast pork, Game meats. It is also ideal for a good selection of well-aged sheep and goat cheeses. But it can also be enjoyed on its own, with a good book.
The Purity of the Terroir
Five generations of winemakers with roots in San Vicente de la Sonsierra have woven a long history of complicity between man and vine to extract their maximum virtues, applying all necessary efforts to convey their expressiveness in unique wines.
Maros Eguren, leading the winemaking work, and Miguel Eguren, in management as Group president, lead a viticultural project in search of wines that evoke the vineyard, with great versatility and marked personality. Wines that adhere to the new classics: wines that endure over time, combining fruit, power, and structure with elegance, freshness, and subtlety.
Sierra Cantabria, Viñedos Sierra Cantabria, Señorío de San Vicente, and Viñedos de Páganos make up their projects in the Rioja DOCa, to which their presence in the Toro D.O. with the Teso La Monja winery must be added. The family and their wineries enjoy national and international prestige, having received distinctions and awards in both arenas.
La Rioja Alavesa: the elite of Rioja wines
La Rioja Alavesa is classified as a subzone within the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin. It has 13,500 hectares of vineyards and several hundred wineries, resulting in an annual average production of around 40 million liters of wine.
The area especially produces red wines with specific general characteristics, such as a bright and lively color, a fine aroma, a fruity taste, and a pleasant palate. These peculiarities are due to the clay-limestone soils of the area, which are excellent for vines to absorb the necessary moisture. The climate and location of the vineyards also contribute to their quality, situated behind the Sierra de Toloño, which protects the vines from the cold northern winds
