La Dula Garnachas de Altura

Sierra de Toloño

“This is the fourth vintage of Sandra Bravo's brilliant old-vine Garnacha from Rivas de Tereso and it's every bit as good as its predecessors. Aged in 300-litre clay amphoras. It's wonderfully perfumed and intense, with engaging bramble and red cherry fruit sweetness, fine tannins and a long, energetic palate.” 96 points — Tim Atkin MW, Rioja 2023 Special Report. Tim Atkin's Red Wine Discovery of the Year in 2019.

Country:  Spain

Region:  Rioja Alavesa

Appellation:  Rioja DOCa

Climate:  Unique Cool Continental Mediterranean

Altitude:  700m+

Soils:  Cretaceous limestone clay-calcareous soils above older sandstones and marls from the continental Tertiary period

Varietal/Blend:  100% Garnacha (with some old mutations of Garnacha Gris in the fields as well)

Fermentation:  Slowly and spontaneously fermented in small oak foudres at a very low temperature.

Ageing:  Aged in 300L amphorae Unfined. Unfiltered.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic farming. Estate vines. Garnacha from several octogenarian plots of Garnacha at over 700 m, the last plots of Garnacha in the Sierra de Toloño. Traditional goblet trained old bush vines. Farmed and harvested by hand (into small 15kg crates to prevent premature crushing).

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  541

CSPC:  889829

About the Producer

Sandra Bravo


Rioja, Spain

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La Dula Garnachas de Altura
Sierra de Toloño

Country:  Spain

Region:  Rioja Alavesa

Appellation:  Rioja DOCa

“This is the fourth vintage of Sandra Bravo's brilliant old-vine Garnacha from Rivas de Tereso and it's every bit as good as its predecessors. Aged in 300-litre clay amphoras. It's wonderfully perfumed and intense, with engaging bramble and red cherry fruit sweetness, fine tannins and a long, energetic palate.” 96 points — Tim Atkin MW, Rioja 2023 Special Report. Tim Atkin's Red Wine Discovery of the Year in 2019.

TECHNICAL INFO

Climate:  Unique Cool Continental Mediterranean

Altitude:  700m+

Soils:  Cretaceous limestone clay-calcareous soils above older sandstones and marls from the continental Tertiary period

Varietal/Blend:  100% Garnacha (with some old mutations of Garnacha Gris in the fields as well)

Fermentation:  Slowly and spontaneously fermented in small oak foudres at a very low temperature.

Ageing:  Aged in 300L amphorae Unfined. Unfiltered.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic farming. Estate vines. Garnacha from several octogenarian plots of Garnacha at over 700 m, the last plots of Garnacha in the Sierra de Toloño. Traditional goblet trained old bush vines. Farmed and harvested by hand (into small 15kg crates to prevent premature crushing).

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  541

CSPC:  889829

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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La Dula Garnachas de Altura
Sierra de Toloño
“This is the fourth vintage of Sandra Bravo's brilliant old-vine Garnacha from Rivas de Tereso and it's every bit as good as its predecessors. Aged in 300-litre clay amphoras. It's wonderfully perfumed and intense, with engaging bramble and red cherry fruit sweetness, fine tannins and a long, energetic palate.” 96 points — Tim Atkin MW, Rioja 2023 Special Report. Tim Atkin's Red Wine Discovery of the Year in 2019.

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Spain

Region:  Rioja Alavesa

Appellation:  Rioja DOCa

Climate:  Unique Cool Continental Mediterranean

Altitude:  700m+

Soils:  Cretaceous limestone clay-calcareous soils above older sandstones and marls from the continental Tertiary period

Varietal/Blend:  100% Garnacha (with some old mutations of Garnacha Gris in the fields as well)

Fermentation:  Slowly and spontaneously fermented in small oak foudres at a very low temperature.

Ageing:  Aged in 300L amphorae Unfined. Unfiltered.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic farming. Estate vines. Garnacha from several octogenarian plots of Garnacha at over 700 m, the last plots of Garnacha in the Sierra de Toloño. Traditional goblet trained old bush vines. Farmed and harvested by hand (into small 15kg crates to prevent premature crushing).

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  541

CSPC:  889829

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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780-203-5284

joe@vinoalvino.ca

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306-290-0277

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