El Camino 2021
Descripción
Con una producción limitada de poco más de 3.500 botellas El Camino es el nuevo vino parcelario de Torre de Oña, procedente de viñedos viejos situados en la Rioja Alavesa. Este proyecto es el primero de una serie cuyo objetivo es preservar y recuperar viñedos históricos capaces de transmitir la esencia de la gran tradición vitivinícola riojana.
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Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
The unnamed wine I tasted last year under the generic name Viñedos Artesanales has finally been released as the 2021 El Camino, which comes from three plots of old head-pruned vines planted 81 years ago with Tempranillo and 3% other varieties, including Mazuelo, Garnacha and Viura. The vines are in El Pisón, La Revilla and Las Naves lieux-dits of the village of Elvillar. The destemmed grapes fermented in the new winery that was built for this range, Viñedos Artesanales, in small troncoconic stainless steel vats, and the wine matured in 500-liter French oak barrels for 14 months, including malolactic. Using larger barrels means the wine has to be sold as generic, or "joven"; it cannot be sold as Reserva or Gran Reserva, or even Crianza! But user larger barrels also means the oak is a lot more integrated and has less impact on the wine, which is young and juicy, with great freshness, elegance and balance, with a different profile, with a lot lees oak. It shows a little backward, shy, insinuating and subtle, a little austere and opening slowly in the glass. It's silky and elegant, but it has grip, with very chalky tannins. It has contained ripeness, 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.78, 4.8 grams of acidity and just under two grams of unfermented sugar. It's evolving in a very slow and positive way. It's a good debut. 3,680 bottles were filled in July 2023. The label is unique; it has a small piece of a vine shoot attached to it!
Striking depth and complexity for a Rioja, with roasted spices, minerals, cumin, red peppercorns and touches of cured meat and cocoa powder. Full and really minerally on the palate, with tense and super-polished tannins. Really long. Drink or hold.
El Camino is a new wine from the Torre de Oña team, sourced from three parcels in Elvillar (El Pisón, La Revilla and Quintanilla), featuring a field blend of Tempranillo with 20% of other red and white grapes. Spicy and energetic, it has top notes of wild Mediterranean herbs, chalky minerality and layers of black cherry, raspberry and pomegranate. A superb first release. Appealingly refreshing. 2026-38
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