Bodega Exopto - La Mimbrera-Coupage Trade 2021

Rött vin från Rioja

« De två sakerna som skiljer Exopto-vinerna från de flesta Riojas är deras fräschör och uttrycksfullhet. Vinerna från Bodega Exopto är gjorda av 10 hektar gamla vingårdar fördelade på 15 små lägen med olika jordsammansättningar, höjder, väderförhållanden och solorientering. »

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789kr
4734kr
Antal flaskor per låda: 6
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Distrikt Rioja
Druvor Garnacha , Tempranillo , Viura
Årgång 2021
Procucenter Bodegas Exopto
Artikelnr Exopto 105
Beställningssortiment
Lagerstatus
Fraktkostnad 169:-
Avnjutes mellan 2024 - 2034

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Poäng: 95/100

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The wine team - gassaswine.se

Robert Parker Wine Advocate
[vintage 2021]

The traditional red blend 2021 La Mimbrera was produced with 70% Tempranillo, 25% Garnacha and 5% Viura. In 2020, he managed to purchase the adjacent plot, so the volume has grown, which is good for availability but also makes it easier to vinify and age, even if it's an integral vinification and aging in 225-liter oak barrels. The wine has ripeness, nuance, balance and elegance, and it's clean and precise, very much in the house style, with some dusty tannins and a chalky sensation. Great balance and aging potential, I think. 1,000 bottles were filled in April 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.

Tim Atkin
[vintage 2021]

Druvor

75% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha & 5% Viura

Tasting note

Tom Puyaubert has long been a cheerleader for Graciano grown in Rioja’s Atlantic-influenced terroirs (which comprise barely two percent of total plantings). The small parcel, within the existing, old vine La Mimbrera vineyard, was planted at 5,000 vines/ha and holds sentimental value for its grower; it was the first vineyard Puyaubert planted in Ábalos. Destemmed and naturally fermented in old oak, the wine spent two weeks on skins and aged for 18 months in the same, 600-litre barrel. The nose is on point with a delicious high-toned perfume of blue fruit, fig, violet, pepper and spice. In the mouth it beats with vitality, with elevated acidity and chalky tannins cascading around a core of silky and fleshy floral-flecked fruit. It has complexity to burn, so give it a good decant if drinking young. It’s a fabulous wine that had us craving a dish of braised beef or a fillet of venison. 

The nose is on-point with a delicious high-toned perfume of blue fruit, fig, violet, pepper and spice. In the mouth it beats with vitality, with elevated acidity and chalky tannins cascading around a core of silky and fleshy floral-flecked fruit. It has complexity to burn, so give it a good decant if drinking young. It’s a fabulous wine that had us craving a dish of braised beef or a fillet of venison.

 

The wine team - Bodega Exopto 

 

« Det personliga projektet av en fransman som tänker om Rioja-traditionen - Tom Puyabert. » Historia Exopto är latin för "längta efter" eller "att önska mycket". År 2000 kom fransmannen Tom Puyabert till Spanien för att arbeta som försäljningsagent för det prestigefyllda tunnbindningshuset Saury. Efter att ha blivit kär i vinerna och vingårdarna i La Rioja, växlade han 2003 och bestämde sig för att starta sitt eget vinprojekt, Bodegas Exopto, med syftet att utforska den...

Technical sheet

 

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

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