Solar Viejo Rioja Crianza 2019 vs Wandering Beeste Syrah 2017
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| Availability | In stock | Out of stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £13.96 | — |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | — |
| Producer | Solar Viejo | Boutinot |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Tempranillo | Syrah |
| Region | Rioja | — |
| Country | Spain | — |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy |
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Solar Viejo Rioja Crianza 2019
With more than 75 years of history, Solar Viejo integrates tradition and modernity in equal parts at its flagship winery, located in the village of Laguardia Winemaker Vanesa Insausti has grown-up making Rioja and gained experience making wines all across the region before settling at Solar Viejo in 2007. Vanesa's aim is always to make the highest quality wines from the very best fruit. Solar Viejo Crianza is made using a blend of base wines made from the Tempranillo grape. Ageing in American and French oak barrels for 12 months delivers a level of complexity that is well integrated with the rich red fruit.
Wandering Beeste Syrah 2017
Wandering Beeste Syrah is skinny, structured stuff with breadth, texture and a charming rustic gait. Mineral, fine and uplifting this vintage is another bony Beeste. Made up of 50% whole berry and 50% whole bunch, once again it is the bright acidity and fine tannins in the stems that lift the ripe Syrah fruit to a freshness and vitality seldom found in Swartland. The mean, salty rough soils give further minerality to the palate which produces a long, broad and bright finish - a delightful Syrah! The grapes for this wine are selected from vineyards from the slopes of the Kasteelberg and Paardeberg mountains, each adding its own intonation of blue and red fruit. Vines are approx. 15-25 years old and express the shale and granite rock on which they grow. The grapes are picked in the early hours and trucked to the winery where further selection is made. 50% of the fruit is fermented whole bunch and 50% whole berry. The wine goes through wild yeast fermentation over a 6 month period in old French oak barrels. It is then racked off and settled, mostly into tank, for a further 4 months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. Food Pairing: It deserves a wonderfully premium juicy rare steak! 2016 Vintage Awards: Bronze - Decanter World Wine Awards 2017 Bronze - IWC 2017 Silver - Sommelier Wine Awards 2017
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