Benjamín Romeo - Contador 2019

Name: Benjamín Romeo - Contador 2019
Price: 3199 SEK
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Rating: 97 (2 reviews)

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Benjamín Romeo works 75 plots of vines that total some 47 hectares and produces around 150,000 bottles of the ultimate modern Rioja. These are modern and hedonistic expression of Rioja and Tempranillo.

2017 Robert Parker 97 points
2016 Robert Parker 98 points
2015 Robert Parker 97 points
2014 Robert Parker 97 points
2012 Robert Parker 97 points
2011 Robert Parker 96 points

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Distrikt	Rioja
Druvor	Tempranillo
Årgång	2019
Procucenter	Bodega Contador
Artikelnr	Contador 2014
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Fraktkostnad	169:-
Avnjutes mellan	2021 - 2030

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97/100

I also tasted the 2017 Contador, which was very different from the 2016. This is showy, expressive, open and aromatic and seems to jump right out of the glass with decayed flowers, ripe wild berries and herbs. It's lush and round, even though the alcohol level is very similar to the 2016. It has a decadent nose that I remember from some vintages around the turn of the century, aromas that made us all think of a Burgundian expression of Tempranillo that we didn't know was possible. It has firm tannins, not as refined as those from the 2016 vintage. While approachable now, I'd wait a bit more to pull the cork. Considering the challenges of the 2017 vintage, this is a real triumph over the adverse conditions. 6,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2019 after 20 months in new French oak barrels.

Benjamín Romeo - Contador 2019

THE BEGINNINGS (1996-2000)

- The Bodega Contador story starts in 1995 when Benjamin Romeo, winemaker and vine-grower, acquired a centuries old cave hewn into the rock beneath the Castle of San Vicente de la Sonsierra (Rioja). In 1996 he made the first vintage of his “La Cueva del Contador” wine and started to buy vineyards for his plan to become a “bodeguero” - a wine producer.

- In the following years he carried out small scale vinifications in the cave and continued to acquire vineyards. In 1999 he made the first vintage of “Contador”.

- Seeing these first wines favourably received by the market and specialist press, in 2000 Benjamin decided to dedicate himself full time to his personal project.

THE GARAGE (2001-2007)

- Throughout 2001 Benjamin Romeo reconditioned and equipped the garage at his parents’ home in San Vicente for winemaking, thereby increasing the vinification capacity over what was possible in the cave.

- The North American wine critic Robert Parker’s Review awarded maximum points (100) to the 2004 and 2005 vintages of Contador, made in the garage. This accolade, hitherto unknown in Spain, hugely increased the label’s international prestige.

- From 2004 to 2006, Benjamin Romeo and the architect Hector Herrera worked together on the design of his winery, which was built in 2006-8.

BODEGA CONTADOR (2008-ACTUALIDAD)

- The new winery (bodega) was opened on 21 June 2008, coinciding with the summer solstice. The building sits at the foot of the village of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, in the centre of the area where the various Bodega Contador vineyards are located.

- The three floors or terraces of the winery mirror the original slopes of the site where it is located, at the same time enabling both fruit and wine to be moved by gravity.

- The building’s terraces are covered with plants that blend in with the local vegetation. The winery has exposed concrete walls so that gradually they become coated with dust and end up melding with the earth from which they came.

Början (1996-2000) Berättelsen om Bodega Contador börjar 1995 när Benjamin Romeo, vinmakare och vinodlare, förvärvade en hundra år gammal grotta huggen i klippan under slottet San Vicente de la Sonsierra (Rioja). 1996 gjorde han den första årgången av sitt "La Cueva del Contador"-vin och började köpa vingårdar för sin plan att bli en "bodeguero" - en vinproducent.-Under de följande åren utförde han småskaliga vinifieringar i grottan och fortsatte att förvärva vingårdar. 1999 gjorde han den...

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