Sierra de Tolono Rioja Blanco 2023

Sierra de Tolono Rioja Blanco 2023

Sierra de Tolono
$22.00

Grape: Viura
Vintage: 2023
Type: White

Winemaker Sandra Bravo is the first one harvesting in the area, and let's her Viura undergo malo. The clean and aromatic, young white 2023 Blanco de Sierra de Toloo has herbal notes and a sensation of freshness. With only 11.5% alcohol, it has very good freshness and acidity. It's young and fruit driven and was matured in stainless steel with lees and bottled unoaked. 12,000 bottles produced. Despite it being bottled in January 2024, it felt quite harmonious.

 

Sierra de Tolono is Sandra Bravo's Rioja Alavesa project, based in the high, limestone-rich foothills below the Sierra de Cantabria. After working in several regions, Bravo returned to make wines that express the cooler, more Atlantic side of Rioja through old vines, organic farming and parcel selection around villages such as Rivas de Tereso. Her cellar work avoids the heavy oak signatures associated with classic Rioja, favoring native fermentations, concrete, amphora and used wood. The wines are fresh, floral and precise, built around Tempranillo, Garnacha, Viura and the mountain wind that preserves acidity in this part of the region.