Sierra de Tolono Rioja La Dula Garnacha de Altura 2022

Sierra de Tolono Rioja La Dula Garnacha de Altura 2022

Sierra de Tolono
$30.00

Grape: Garnacha
Vintage: 2022
Type: Red

100% Garnacha from very old vines (80+) grown on the clay and limestone soils of the vineyards around Rivas de Tereso, in Alavesa (650m elevation). The wine is made from spontaneous fermentation in old used foudres, and elevage in clay amphorae. It has become Sandra's signature wine, an elegant expression of Garnacha with marked Atlantic influences.

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.