Winery: Bodegas Luis Cañas                              

Region: Rioja

Vintage: 2021                                               

Bottle: 75cl                                                   

Grape Varieties: 95% Tempranillo and 5% Garnacha, Graciano. Viura and Malvasía.

Type: Red Wine, oak aged

Alcohol Volume: 14,5% vol.

Serving Temperature: 16º - 18º

Production: 

Made from selected Tempranillo grapes with a small percentage of other traditional varieties such as Grenache, Graciano, Viura and Malvasía. The grapes are sourced from vineyards with an average age of 35 years and are located at 450 to 650 meters above sea level in the Villabuena de Álava area and some neighbouring municipalities.

The wine has the Guarantee of Origin "Vino de Zona". A seal issued by the DOCa Rioja that certifies that the grapes come from vineyards located in Rioja Alavesa.

The grapes are hand harvested, followed by a double table selection. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks. Aged for 12 months in used oak barrels (60% French oak and 40% American oak).

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.

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.