Valenciso Cemento 2020 (6 Bottles) Rioja, Spain

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Lush bodied red wine with a broad character. Deep dak cherry colour with fat tears. Expressive aromas of floral, fruity and mineral accents. Very elegant taste with freshness and character in the expressive, yet refined texture. Very interesting wine with great finesse and a delightful rich mineral aftertaste.

Lovely on its own or as a companion with fine red meat, extra-long ripened ham or stuffed red peppers.

A distinctive feature of Valenciso’s approach in the cellar is the widespread use of concrete tanks for fermentation, a practise which allows for a gentler extraction of fruit and colour. Concrete vats were once a mainstay in Rioja, yet by the by the 1980s the tradition of fermenting and aging in cement vessels had largely been replaced by stainless steel and oak maturation. Today, thanks to its numerous advantages and a group of specialist manufacturers, concrete has found itself right back at the forefront of fashion.

Where all of Valenciso’s wines see the inside of some concrete during their élevage, this new bottling, as the name suggests, has been fermented raised entitled in concrete vats. It’s 100% Tempranillo drawn from a group of old-vine vineyards nestled in the limestone-rich hillsides of Haro and Ollauri in Rioja’s Western Sonsierra. All up, the wine weas aged for 30 months before bottling, resulting in a wonderfully bright and complex wine with wild blackberry and plum characters, and hints of black pepper in an elegant and rounded palate with fine tannins.