Sierra de Toloño Rioja Alavesa, 2023 light Crafted for by-the-glass restaurant service

Crafted for by-the-glass restaurant service

This is wine built for the cellar

steak with chimichurri

5% Petit Verdot and 1% Malbec from Napa Valley

Fermented and aged entirely in neutral barrels

Sierra de Toloño Rioja Alavesa, 2023 light Crafted for by-the-glass restaurant serviceThe mountains of Sierra de Toloo, with their clay and limestone rocky soils, are perfect conditions to grow Tempranillo. This is Sandra Bravo's "soldier", the wine that points the way to some of the most elegant expressions of Rioja Alavesa we've encountered. Harvested by hand, mid October, the wine ferments spontaneously and then ages for 8 months in neutral barrels, and a little bit in amphorae. It is bottled unfiltered and unfined. Spicy, textured,