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Altos R Pigeage Graciano 2018

Rioja DOCa

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  • Great Gold, Catavinum World Wine & Spirits Competition, 2021
  • 96pts, Catavinum World Wine & Spirits Competition, 2021
  • Gold, China Wine & Spirits Best Value Awards, 2021
  • 93pts, Guia Peñin, 2021
  • 93pts, Tasted 100% Blind, Andreas Larsson, 2021
  • Gold, Berliner Wine Trophy, 2021
  • Gold, Premios Vinduero-Vindouro, 2021
  • 93pts, James Suckling, Spain Tasting Report, 2021
  • Gold, Concours International de Lyon, 2021
  • Gold, China Wine & Spirits Awards (CWSA), 2021
  • Grand Gold, Asia Wine Trophy, 2021
  • 94pts, James Suckling Top 100 Wines of Spain, 2021
  • 93pts, Guía de vinos ADN Verema, 2022
  • 90pts, Tim Atkin, Rioja Special Report, 2021
  • 92pts, Premios Vinduero-Vindouro, 2021

Six Golds, plus four top scores, including 93 Points from Spain's Top Sommelier, this is a stunning, rare Rioja. It’s made purely from the region’s superb Graciano grape. Very low-yield, tiny berries, aged in new oak, it's layered with complexity

Six Golds, plus four top scores, including 93 Points from Spain's Top Sommelier, this is a stunning, rare Rioja. It’s made purely from the region’s superb Graciano grape. Very low-yield, tiny berries, aged in new oak, it's layered with complexity

Beyond the Label

Tasting notes

Powerful, silky, yet fresh, with red fruits, hints of spice, length

Aroma

Floral lift, with red berry fruit, a balsamic and mineral note, spice

Allergy information

Contains sulphites

Altos R Pigeage Graciano 2018

More information

  • 14.0% ABV
  • 10.5 Units
  • 750.00 ml
  • 31 December, 2038

Our Haut-Brion-trained winemaker, Jean-Marc Sauboua, founded Altos in 2006 and, all together, has won over 180 Golds, Trophies, plus many high scores. He works with the young Amaia Amestoy and Hector Gomez in the cellar, whose CVs includes experience at Napa’s Château Montelena, Contino and Murrieta in Rioja and Villacreces in Ribera del Duero. They made this wine from old-vine (80+ years) Tempranillo and Graciano, vinifying it using Burgundy’s pigeage method. This involves fermenting in open vats and plunging the skins into the liquid three times a day – hands-on winemaking that delivers great results. Aged for two years in half new French oak and bottled unfiltered, the wine offers seams of intense black fruit with spice-box complexity.

"Herbaceous and peppery spiciness with wild berries, floral notes and discreet oak. Peppery spiciness" Andreas Larsson, 93pts
World's Top Sommelier
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