Winery:  Bodegas Luis Cañas                                   

Region:  Rioja

Vintage:  2016                                                        

Bottle:   75 cl                                                   

Grape Varieties: 95% Tempranillo and 5% Graciano

Type:  Red  Wine, oak aged

Alcohol Volume:  14.5 %

Serving Temperature:  16º - 18º

Production:  Made from selected Tempranillo grapes with a small percentage of Graciano sourced from vineyards with an average age of 40 years. Aged for 18 months in second year oak barrels, 70% French oak and 30% American oak, followed by 18 months resting in bottle.

Tasting Notes:  Good aromatic intensity, mature nose with notes of ripe red fruit and nice hints of coffee, tobacco and spice. Smooth, medium-bodied, with developed red fruit, leather and spice notes. Well-integrated fine tannins on an elegant finish.

Note:  Drink now through 2030

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.