PEÑA EL GATO TINAJA
GRAPE: Garnacha
APPELLATION: Rioja DOCa
VINIFICATION:
After destemming, the grapes are vatted and fermented, subsequently passing to small capacity tanks in which they are aged
TASTING NOTES:
After destemming, the grapes are vatted in a 500-litre clay vat in which they undergo alcoholic fermentation and ageing. The wine remains in the vat with the fermentation lees for 11 months.
FOOD PAIRING: Barbecued ribs, steaks and grilled vegetables
RATINGS HISTORY:
• Wine of the year Tim Atkin, vntg 2024
• 95 Tim Atkin, vntg 2024
• 94 Tim Atkin, vntg 2023, 2022, 2021
• 93 Tim Atkin, vntg 2020
• 92 Robert Parker (WA), vntg 2019
Tech Sheet:
PRODUCER: Located in Rioja Alta, one of the best-known wine-producing regions of Spain. This winery, operated in the town of Baños de Río Tobía (Rioja Alta) by Juan Carlos Sancha, a professor of enology at the University of La Rioja, is situated on five hectares of land along the border of D.O.Ca. Rioja, and in the coldest zone of this wine denomination.
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