Winery:  Bodegas y Viñedos de Gómez Cruzado               

Región:  D.O.C. Rioja (Rioja Alta)

Vintage:   2020                               

Bottle:   75 cl                                                   

Grape Varieties: 100% Garnacha

Type: Red Wine, oak aged

Alcohol Content:  14.5%

Serving Temperature:  16º - 18º

Production:  

The Gómez Cruzado Pancrudo Selección Terroir is pure Garnacha from a selected terroir, high altitude vines at 650 above the sea level located in the upper Najerilla, on a north facing slope, and red coloured ferrous-clay soils.

Traditional winemaking, fermentation takes place in open-top stainless-steel vats using autochthonous yeasts. Aged for 12 months in 65% in new French oak and 35% in concrete egg-shaped vats. Production of 6984 bottles.

Tasting Notes:  Ripe, slightly earthy fruit, especially ripe cherry and raspberry. Spiciness and mature dark fruit flavors on the palate, pleasantly soft tannins, very elegant and harmonious.

THE WINERY

Gómez Cruzado is a boutique winery located in the well-known Barrio de la Estación, the railway station district in Haro (La Rioja), a unique place with a long history and a long tradition in wine making, considered as the birthplace of Rioja wine.

A bodega with origins dating back to 1886, that still maintains its family-business style while staying faithful to its heritage of the fine wine style of Haro’s Barrio de la Estación. Although the annual production is small, the winery has already established a reputation for the quality of its wines, good credits going to the two winemakers and viticulturist in charge of the project, Juan Antonio Leza and David González, for all their input in running the winery and their vision in creating wines with their own personalities and characters that reflect the terroir where they come from. wines that reflect the terroir where they come from.

Wines born from privileged terroirs, the grapes come from vineyards in the highest areas of Rioja Alta and Rioja Alavesa, from a mix of nearly a hundred different plots in three very different terroirs and three microclimates: Sierra Cantabria, Bajo Najerilla and Alto Najerilla.