Bodega Lanzaga La Estrada Rioja 2022
£76.95
The wine
From a tiny half-hectare of eighty-year-old vines in the highest, coolest part of Lanciego, La Estrada is Telmo Rodríguez’s most elegant single-vineyard Rioja. Mainly Tempranillo with a little Graciano, on poor calcareous-clay soils.
Fragrant and refined, it offers red cherry and wild berry with floral and herbal lift, fine-grained tannins and a long, savoury finish. Elegance and precision in a glass. Serve with roast beef, lamb, poultry and mature cheeses.
The producer
Bodega Lanzaga
View all Bodega Lanzaga winesBodega Lanzaga is the Rioja home of Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza, founded in 1998 in the village of Lanciego, deep in Rioja Alavesa. Their mission is to rediscover the great Rioja of old: terroir-driven, made from organic old bush vines and traditional field blends of Tempranillo, Graciano, Garnacha and a host of native varieties.
Working without new oak, with native yeasts, concrete and old foudres, they build a Burgundian-style hierarchy: the everyday Corriente and young LZ, the flagship village wine Lanzaga, and a handful of rare single-vineyard cuvées from Lanciego and Labastida. Telmo led the campaign that won Rioja its village and single-vineyard labelling.
These are pure, honest, age-worthy wines with a profound sense of place, among the most admired in modern Rioja.






