Vizcarra – Senda Del Oro Tinto

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Spain

Castilla y Leon

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Red

The Facts

UPCs 2022 (750ml) - 8 10411 01103 4

Origins Spain > Castilla y Leon

Appellation Ribera del Duero

Varietal Tempranillo

Cepage 100% Tempranillo

Winemaking After careful selection, the grapes are destemmed and crushed. Maceration lasts 14 days. Fermentation is carried out in stainless steel tanks and malolactic takes place in barrels. The wine is aged for 7 months in French and American oak barrels that are 2 years old. Relatively short aging in used barrels allows the wine to oxygenate and become softer and rounder without the added wood tannins of barrels. This method lets the wine retain its fresh, youthful fruit characters.

Aging 7 months in French and American oak barrels

Markets California

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The Character

Overall Pure & Elegant

Aromas Mineral-tinged raspberry and floral pastille scents

Mouthfeel Freshness & Minerality

Tasting Notes Ruby-red. Mineral-tinged raspberry, incense and floral pastille scents pick up a spicy accent with air. Juicy, sweet and seamless in texture, offering concentrated red fruit and spicecake flavors that put on weight as the wine opens up. The spice and floral notes carry through a long, energetic, focused finish shaped by silky, even tannins

Selling Point Estate bottled Ribera made exclusively with gravity-fed wine

Pairings Grilled pork and lamb are natural pairs for the generous fruit and acidity of Ribera del Duero

Awards 93pts Wine & Spirits Magazine, 91pts Tim Atkins

Sustainability Biodynamic In Practice, Organic In Practice, Sustainable In Practice

The Story

Juan Carlos Vizcarra is a man of intensity, passion, and incredible ambition. Though his family has grown grapes in northern DO Ribera del Duero for more than four generations, he was the first to make estate-bottled wine from this fruit starting in 1991. The story goes that when he was a boy, he noticed that the historic estates of Vega Sicilia and Pesquera would come to his family in bad vintages to buy fruit. Realizing that his family must have truly special vineyards of the highest quality, Juan Carlos took it upon himself to begin producing wines to express this blessed terroir and heritage. Like all the wines at the tiny Bodegas Vizcarra, the Senda del Oro is made using gravity-fed winemaking to preserve the freshness and elegance intrinsic to the limestone plots found in northern Burgos. The name refers to the “golden mile,” a local road stretching between the famed estates in the appellation. Meticulous in everything he does, Juan Carlos applies his detail-oriented approach to every facet of the winemaking process. With painstaking attention paid to every detail from vineyard to bottle, Juan Carlos is able to express the elegance and freshness intrinsic to this special land he farms by hand, without the use of chemicals. Oak is used as a framer of the fruit in a supporting role, and the result is a confluence of power and freshness that positions his wines among the greats of the appellation. While Senda del Oro is Vizcarra’s entry-level wine, the exacting nature of the regimen is the same as his flagship wines, and exhibits world class Ribera quality.

About Vizcarra

Brand Story

Vizcarra is one of the region’s most highly-awarded wineries, consistently gaining recognition for their advances in microvinification and impeccable, age-worthy bottles. Juan Carlos is also a pioneer of the ‘garagiste’ winemaking movement in Spain, promoting the vinification of small-batch, terroir-reflective wines in the style of former generations of growers.

Brand Story

Vizcarra is one of the region’s most highly-awarded wineries, consistently gaining recognition for their advances in microvinification and impeccable, age-worthy bottles. Juan Carlos is also a pioneer of the ‘garagiste’ winemaking movement in Spain, promoting the vinification of small-batch, terroir-reflective wines in the style of former generations of growers.