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Dominio del Challao - Angelita del Challao 2023

Name: Dominio del Challao - Angelita del Challao 2023
Price: 349 SEK
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Rating: 94 (1 reviews)

Rött vin från Rioja Spanien

« Dominio del Challao är ett projekt av Manu Michelini, en vinodlare med sin familj i Argentina, Uruguay och Spanien tillsammans med Carlos Fernandez, en producent och vinodlare sedan generationer brett rotad i sitt familjeprojekt. Staden Labastida, i La Rioja, är det som inspirerar dem att göra eleganta, komplexa och långvariga viner. Där samlar de fem ägda tomter som utgör 6 hektar 100% biodynamiska vingårdar odlade med djurdragkraft. »

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Distrikt	Rioja
Druvor	Garnacha , Tempranillo , Viura , Malvasía , Garnacha Blanca , Graciano
Årgång	2023
Procucenter	Dominio del Challao
Artikelnr	Challao 101
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Avnjutes mellan	2026 - 2033

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The 2023 Angelita del Challao comes from four plots closer to the mountains, planted with a higher percentage of Tempranillo, 80% to 85%, some Garnacha and 5% of a myriad of other varieties. It fermented in concrete with indigenous yeasts and some 20% full clusters and uncrushed grapes and had a very long maceration/infusion, then the wine matured in a combination of 500-liter oak barrels and the majority in 2,000-liter oak foudres for 29 months, a longer time this year. It's floral, a common theme in the 2023s, and perfumed, and it's textured and chalky, from the chalkiness in the soils and the proximity of the mountain. In 2024, he added a new plot to this cuvée. It has low alcohol, 12.5%, with a pH of around 3.4, and is fresh, balanced and fine-boned. It's very attractive, with a mixture of flowers, berries and herbs with a spicy twist. It's quite showy after some time in the glass. It's medium-bodied and elegant, with round, very fine tannins but with grip. Some 8,000 bottles were produced in 2023, which, in general, was a lower-yielding year than 2022. It was bottled in December 2024.

Druvor

Tempranillo 85%, Garnacha 10%, Malvasia, Viura, Garnacha Blanca, Graciano

Tasting note

The 2021 Angelita del Challao, the red village wine from Labastida, comes from the vineyards in the lower part of the village on deeper soils with more clay, and it still has a moderate 12.7% alcohol and great freshness (denoted by a pH of 3.4), balance and elegance. They have included one more vineyard in this cool year, a plot that was contributing to Challao before. All of the reds ferment with a portion of stems (the Tempranillo never more than 20%), all the plots separately and aged separately for one year, then they blend the wine and put it back in the barrels of different sizes and foudre to complete some 20 months. This is a nice blending exercise, with a little more volume and juiciness but still a mineral, serious, chalky mouthfeel. It's smoky and showy, with darker fruit than the rest of the reds. It's approximately 80% Tempranillo and the rest Garnacha, Mazuelo, Viura, Garnacha Blanca and other mixed varieties. 21,581 bottles and some larger formats produced. It was bottled in November 2023.

I met a little earlier with Manuel "Manu" Michelini to taste the new vintage from his personal project in Labastida, Dominio del Challao, before he went to Argentina for Christmas, summer holidays (it's the Southern Hemisphere, folks!) and the harvest there. I was still tasting other regions, so these were the first Rioja wines I tasted. All were 2021s except the new white, which was from 2020. Production is 35,000 bottles.

In 2022, he stopped buying grapes, but he rents vineyards that he works with his partner Carlos Fernández from Bodegas Tierra. As in many other regions, 2021 was a very good vintage in Rioja. These are beautiful, serious, mineral and elegant wines—a modern view of the wines from the past.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Rioja är utan tvekan den mest kända vinregionen i Spanien, men regionen är allt annat än homogen. De tre underregionerna – Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Oriental och Rioja Alta – skiljer sig enormt åt. Detta vin kommer från den lilla byn Labastida i nordvästra Rioja Alavesa, den minsta och nordligaste underregionen som ligger i spanska Baskien och kännetecknas av kalkrik lera och sandiga jordar. - Hjärnan bakom vingården Dominio del Challao är Manu Michelini, vars familj...

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Manu Michelini bottled the 2023s later than usual because they stayed for longer in the foudres. The initial idea was a longer élevage, following the Rioja tradition, and he's doing it little by little. In 2023, he managed to have the wines in foudre for 29 months. And in 2027, he will release a red wine from 2021, the Challao from the whiter soils of the Challao vineyard—which, since 2023, are bottled separately and only two barrels have been in the cellar since then.

For him, 2023 was an improvement over 2022, warm and dry, but not that dry and not extremely warm, so the wines from 2023 have more acidity and red fruit and are very aromatic and elegant. There were two events of rain in July and late August that changed things: the temperatures cooled down and the plants didn't burn acid. In 2024, there was more rain, with a lot of rain from September onward, the same as in 2025, two more Atlantic vintages. In 2025, the alcohol levels are extremely low; the highest is the white with 12.8%!

Since December 2024, he has been in a new place in Laguardia, so all the 2023s were already bottled there, and the 2024s were fermented there. The vineyards are the same as in previous years. As a side note, he's making a wine in Burgundy with the guys from Simon Bize, a Savigny-Les-Beaunes from 2025!

Robert Parker Wine Advocate