Bideona Villabuena V1BN4 Rioja Alavesa

Bideona Villabuena V1BN4 Rioja Alavesa 2021

£29.45

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Key info
CountrySpain
RegionRioja Alavesa
GrapeTempranillo
TypeRed
Vintage2021
Alcohol14% ABV
BodyFull
SweetnessDry
ElegantFineSpicedSupple
Pairs with — beef & red meat, game, hard cheese, lamb

The wine

Precise and pure red berry aromas lead to a supple and elegant palate, with spicy nuances, finely grained tannins and an amazing flow through to the finish. The Villabuena village bottling, from some of the oldest vines on the estate.

Villabuena de Alava has more wineries per head than almost any village in Spain, and its vineyards are among the most highly regarded in the Alavesa. Bottled as a village wine rather than under Rioja's ageing classifications, in the belief that where the grapes grew matters more than how long the wine sat in oak.

The producer

Bideona

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Bideona is the Rioja Alavesa project of Telmo Rodriguez and Pablo Eguzkiza, two figures who have spent thirty years arguing that Spain's great vineyards deserve to be treated as places rather than as brands.

The name is Basque, and the whole project is built on village and single-plot bottlings rather than on Rioja's traditional ageing classifications. That is a deliberate rejection of the Crianza and Reserva system, which describes how long a wine spent in oak but says nothing about where it came from. Here the labels name the village instead: Laguardia, Villabuena, Samaniego, Leza.

Rioja Alavesa is the coolest and highest of the three sub-regions, sitting in the lee of the Sierra de Cantabria on chalky clay, and it has the finest raw material in Rioja. The wines are made with minimal extraction and restrained oak, so what shows is the site. It is among the clearest expressions of the new thinking in the region.

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