Winery:  Bodegas Luis Cañas                              

Region:  Rioja

Vintage:  2019                                               

Bottle: 75cl                                                   

Grape Varieties: 95% Tempranillo and 5% Grenache

Type:  Red  Wine, oak aged

Alcohol Volume:  14.5%

Serving Temperature:  16º - 18º

Production: 

Made from selected Tempranillo grapes with a small percentage of Grenache sourced from vineyards with an average age of 30 years.

Aged for 12 months in oak barrels, (60% French oak and 40% American oak), followed by 9 months of rest in bottle.

Tasting Notes:  Clean and intense dark cherry nose with nice hints of coffee and spice. Classy wine, medium-bodied, velvety textured, elegant mature figs and ripe red fruits with a touch of vanilla and fine tannins with a long, pleasant aftertaste.

Note:  Drink now through 2028

Bodegas Luis Cañas is located in the heart of the highly acclaimed wine region known as the Rioja Alavesa. It is a family owned winery devoted to wine-making and viticulture for over two centuries, although it was only in 1970 with the commercialisation of its first bottled wines that the winery took off. Throughout the 1990s a bigger emphasis was given to the production of good quality wines, consequently experiencing a rise in sales and becoming what it is today: one of the leading wineries in the Rioja Alavesa.  

The winery owns 90 ha of vines and works another 200 ha under contract; all of them spread out over 870 mostly small sized parcels of advanced age and planted on poor chalky clay soil, and mostly on slopes and terraces. The result is low yields of excellent quality.