Pack Contino Selection
- Rioja
- Viñedos del Contino
Description
Viñedos del Contino was born in 1973, establishing the “château” concept in the Rioja region. Its wines are made exclusively from the vines planted on its 62 hectares. The estate’s vineyards embrace its ancestral home within a meander in the River Ebro, located in Laserna, near the village of Laguardia in the Rioja Alavesa winemaking region.
This pack contains:
1 bottle of Contino Viña del Olivo 2016:
Manual selection of the best bunches from our plot of El Olivo (a 700 year old specimen), one of the few calcareous clay estates in Contino, with a very high limestone content, a slope of 5 to 7% with southern exposure, dry land, no use of herbicides and organic fertilization. Planted in 1980.
1 bottle of Contino Graciano 2017:
Complex nose with violet hints,floral aromas cobined with wild blackberries and an elegant mineral finish.Long and fleeshy wine in mouth.Which stands out for silkiness of its tannins. Contino Graciano is an elegant and balance wine, the result of a magnifice maturation of the variety in our wineyards San Rafael and an excellent aging work.
Contino Graciano es un vino elegante y equilibrado, resultado de una magnífica maduración de la variedad en nuestra Finca San Rafael y un excelente trabajo de envejecimiento.
1 bottle of Contino Garnacha 2018:
The grapes for Contino Garnacha come from the old plots of Pajera, which has calcareous soils and was planted in 1980; Central, planted in 1950 on alluvial and sandy soils; and Lentisco, which is stony and was planted in 1940.
1 bottle of Contino Blanco 2018:
The Garnacha Blanca comes from the San Gregorio Encina plot which was planted in 1980 and whose soils are calcareous clay. The Viura comes from different parts of Contino, from the alluvial, old pago of Lentisco, from the stony San Gregorio La Tabla and from La Finca de Santa María. All of these vines are between 35 and 40 years old.