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Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto Blanco 2019

$42.99

LAST BOTTLES. Outstanding Spanish white ..textural, mineral, aromatic and fresh!

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Bodegas Exopto is one of the new wave of modern winegrowers and quality wine makers in Rioja – Outstanding, well tended, cool vineyards on rocky soils, very old vines and low yields (the total opposite to the trend of mass produced, American oaked wine of the region).
Passionate artisan winemaker, Tom Puyaubert (in fact a Frenchman who married an Espanola!) is fanatical in his focus on their vineyard: 50-100 year old Tempranillo and 70 year old Garnacha vineyard located in Rioja Alavesa (600 metres altitude and the coolest in Rioja). He uses French oak and is producing small quantities of top quality vino (3000 cases – miniscule production for Rioja). No doubt about it Exopto is a Riojan star in the making!

This exceptional, rocky white Rioja is drawn from two plots of old vines in the Periquita and San Cristobel vineyards of Ábalos, Rioja Alta. A blend of mostly Viura with some 10% Garnacha Blanca and the remaining 5% split between Malvasía Riojana, Jaén Blanca and Torrontés, the grapes were picked predominantly from vines co-planted in Exopto’s Tempranillo parcels.

Fermented wild in concrete eggs, the wine was then raised in a mixture of eggs, old barrels and large foudre as Puyaubert seeks to capture the mineral salinity and tension gifted by the rocky limestone soils and old vines in his highland vineyards. The reviews below nail it–this is an outstanding white by any measure. Guided by citrus-driven va va voom and a lick of reduction, this mineral Rioja blanco is at once pithy, amply textured and aromatically complex, with mouth-watering citrus, notes of anise and white flowers and a hint of rosemary. Do not miss this.

92 points, Tim Atkin MW, Rioja Special Report  “Tom Puyaubert’s delightful white combines Viura with 20% Malvasía and Garnacha Blanca from two vineyards in Ábalos and San Vicente de la Sonsierra. Floral and appealing, it has racy acidity, the concentration of low yields, a hint of oak spice and flavours of pear, lemon and quince”
93 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate “The 2019 Horizonte de Exopto Blanco, the village white from Ábalos, has an elegant and captivating nose, complex, elegant and nuanced. The palate is beautifully textured and fresh, with only 12.5% alcohol and very good acidity, clean, precise and very tasty, with a salty finish.”

RRP $50   Our Special Price $42.99 … LAST BOTTLES

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Producer

Bodegas Exopto

Region or Country

Rioja, Spain

Vintage

2019

Variety

Viura

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