Bideona - Samaniego Vinas Viejas 2020 (750ml)

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Producer	Bideona
Country	Spain
Region	Rioja
Subregion	Rioja Alavesa
Varietal	Tempranillo Blend
Vintage	2020
Sku	123849
Size	750ml

Bideona Description

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Bideona’s village wine series is intended to showcase the differences in character among the great, historic wine villages of Rioja Alavesa. This series also highlights a senseless regulation of the Denominación de Origen, which allows the use of a village name by the location of the winery – the building – and not the vineyards. Despite having full traceability of each vineyard parcel, Bideona cannot legally use village names on the labels. As a clever workaround, they have substituted all village names with acronyms that they have registered as brands. Thus, ‘Samaniego’ becomes S4MG0. This Tempranillo field blend comes from old vineyards planted between 1930-1984. Transitioning to the higher slopes closest to the Sierra Cantabria, Samaniego produces some of the most sought-after grapes of Rioja Alavesa.

The grapes were hand harvested in small crates and then manually sorted on a sorting table before being de-stemmed. Alcoholic and malolactic fermentations were carried out in stainless-steel tanks via a mix of indigenous yeast and a house cultured yeast strain. Gentle pump-overs were done to maximize personality without high extraction of color or tannins. The wine was pressed off the skins and was sent to a mix of stainless-steel, concrete, new oak, and used oak for 12 months of aging. It was bottled with a coarse filtration and very gentle sulfur addition. No fining.

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