Bodega Exopto - Horizonte de Exopto Tinto 2022
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| Pris |
299kr
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1794kr
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| Distrikt | Rioja |
| Druvor | Garnacha , Tempranillo , Graciano |
| Årgång | 2022 |
| Procucenter | Bodegas Exopto |
| Artikelnr | Exopto 101 |
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| Lagerstatus | |
| Fraktkostnad | 169:- |
| Avnjutes mellan | 2024 - 2030 |
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Druvor
80% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano & 10% Garnacha
Tasting note
The red 2022 Horizonte de Exopto was produced with a blend of 80% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha and 10% Graciano from different villages (Ábalos, San Vicente and Baños de Ebro) in this more Mediterranean vintage. It has darker fruit, a mixture of red and black berries and also darker spices. It's medium to full-bodied, with fine tannins and good ripeness but keeping the balance. It is young and clean, with integrated oak after it spent 12 months in a combination of oak containers of different sizes and 20% in concrete. 12,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2023.
Despite his resolution last year to stop buying land or vineyards, Tom Puyaubert purchased an additional hectare (four plots) in San Vicente de la Sonsierra and rented another three in Baños de Ebro and one in Leza! He keeps the focus on Graciano, which he considers the grape for the future in Rioja and a variety that in years like 2022, behaves very well, keeping a low pH and good acidity; Tempranillo seems to suffer more with climate change. And after 23 years in the cooperage business, he now agrees that Tempranillo and 225-liter barrels do not work well together, so he's going for more used foudres and even concrete and tinajas (amphorae). The wines have the same clarity as their creator.
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
AT-A-GLANCE
• Frenchman Tom Puyaubert founded this Rioja estate in 2003.
• It covers 22 hectares of old bush vines spread across more than 30 plots on slopes in Rioja Alta and Rioja Oriental.
• The high-elevation sites are influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea and feature a mix of limestone, clay, sand and river rocks.
• Farming incorporates biodynamic principles, with soils ploughed by horse and yields kept low.
• Vinification occurs in cement, stainless steel tanks and large-format neutral French oak.
• Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Malvasía and Viura are the key varieties.
• The estate makes blended and (unusually for the region) single-vineyard wines. There is also a rosé.
IN THE PRESS
“It doesn’t take a long tradition or lots of start up capital to begin making serious Rioja wines of depth and longevity—as a small group of friends who used to play rugby together have proven over just a few years with their modest but ambitions winery, Exopto.”
Jesús Barquín, Luis Gutiérrez and Victor de la Serna, The Finest Wines of Rioja
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“Exopto is one of the consolidated new names in Rioja. Frenchman Tom Puyaubert is nowadays producing better wines than ever. Always humble and down to earth, he is focusing more and more on the vineyards (yeah!)… In the winery he is settling with 600-liter demi-muids, and the oak feels better integrated in the wines, respecting the character of the different vineyards.”
Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate
