VICTOR AUSEJO MAZUELO
GRAPE: 100% Mazuelo
APPELLATION: Rioja DOCa.
VINIFICATION: Manual selection of the bunches in the winery. Destemmed. Cold macerated for 3 days and fermented in stainless steel vats for 12 days with two punch- down a day. Aged for 12 months in 400-liter French barrels and 225-liter Hungarian oak barrels.
TASTING NOTES: It is a wine made of 50% Mazuelo and Garnacha, boasting spectacular freshness. A varietal with a floral and very direct nose, featuring a natural acidity that leaves no one indifferent.
FOOD PAIRING: Red meats, suckling lamb and poultry.
RATINGS HISTORY:
- 94 Pts by Tim Atkin; vntg 2022
- 93 Pts by Robert Parker (WA); vntg 2022
Tech Sheet:
PRODUCER:
Victor Ausejo’s small project arose with the idea of making wine in Alberite (Rioja Oriental), a municipality in the Iregua Valley where people have traditionally dedicated themselves to viticulture but not to making their own wines. If only for family consumption.
In 2018 he wanted to change that and produced just 400 bottles of our wine Víctor Ausejo Viticultor Garnacha Blanca Fermented in Barrel in a determined commitment to get away from the ubiquitous Tempranillo and value the area, its vineyards and minority varieties.
Since then he continued with this philosophy, expanding the range and producing red and white single varietals from traditional grapes that are scarce today in Rioja, with which he tries to convey the identity of the territory and his way of understanding wine.
