Alegre y Valgañón - Blanco, Rioja, Spain (2023)

TASTING NOTES

Old school Rioja winemaking. It's fresh with an Asian fruit element - almost soursop and durian with a touch of salt on the finish. A bit almond-y, chalky, yeasty with a white pepper twist. 

Fermented with natural yeasts - very gently pressed, a cool ferment starts in vat & after a
week continues in large French oak. Aged for 9 months

While Oscar and Eva have only been producing wine since the 2014 vintage, their ideas developed over a period of years. They met while studying enology in Italy, and they eventually married.

Oscar and Eva minimize the use of wood. To this end, they started their project with a mix of used French barriques and demi-muids. Because French wood loses its flavouring ability much faster than does American oak, they’ve been able to minimize the flavour impact of the wood. And as the project develops, they hope to adopt longer aging and even bigger neutral barrels