Remelluri Rioja Reserva (750ml)

It is said that viticulture and winemaking at the Remelluri estate dates back to 14th century monks.  The modern day estate was purchased in 1967 by Jaime Rodriguez.  In 2010, Jaime’s son and daughter, Telmo and Amaia Rodríguez, took the reins of the estate and set about making a series of changes to showcase the potential and diversity of Remelluri’s terroirs.  They reduced their production and began only making wine from estate grown grapes for their Remelluri label.  They are respect tradition and switched their trellis trained Garnacha to  the traditional bush trained vines as well as mixed field plantings.  Remelluri has always eschewed chemical treatments in the vineyard and 2010 marked the year of the estate’s full organic certification.  Wines are fermented with native yeasts, each plot is vinified separately, new oak is used very scarcely and the wines are very lightly filtered and fined.