Nyhet
Dominio del Challao - Garnacha del Challao 2023
Rött vin från Rioja SpanienDominio 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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| Pris |
649kr
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3894kr
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| Distrikt | Rioja |
| Druvor | Garnacha , Garnacha Tintorera |
| Årgång | 2023 |
| Procucenter | Dominio del Challao |
| Artikelnr | Challao 103 |
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| Lagerstatus | |
| Fraktkostnad | 169:- |
| Avnjutes mellan | 2028 - 2034 |
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Druvor
Garnacha
Tasting note
The pale and bright 2023 Challao Garnacha aged in a one-year-old foudre for one year and then was transferred to a more used foudre, but the wine shows an aromatic influence from the wood that is not normal in the wines here, turning balsamic and resin-like. Give it some time in bottle and cross your fingers that it will absorb the oak. It fermented with 70% full clusters in concrete and had a long maceration but very subtle extraction. It has a medium-bodied palate and a powdery texture—there's a lot of silt in the soils, so that might be the reason. At the end of 2023, he stopped working the soils, which are plowed every two years. It has a low 12.1% alcohol and a pH of 3.2 after full malolactic, which makes this a fine-boned, elegant red with very good freshness. My concern is the oak... Some 2,100 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2026.
-Robert Parker Wine Advocate
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!
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