Description
Fact sheet
Winery: Olivier Rivière
Brand: Rayos Uva
Designation: Rioja
Type: Red wine
Vintage: 2020
Alcohol: 14%
Type of grapes: 50% Garnacha, 25% Tempranillo, 25% Graciano.
Time of ageing: Crianza de 5 meses en depósito de acero sobre sus lías y en hormigón.
Vineyard and elaboration
Los viñedos están situados en La Rioja Oriental, en la localidad de Aldeanueva del Ebro, con suelos franco-arcillosos y con cantos rodados.
La vinificación es tradicional con remontados diarios. La maceración es de unas 3 semanas. Se hace un minucioso control de temperatura que jamás puede superar los 25ºC. El vino de prensa es siempre descartado, solo se utiliza el vino de gota.
El vino se clarifica y se filtra ligeramente antes del embotellado.
Winery
Olivier Rivière is a French oenologist that studied in Bordeaux and has been living in La Rioja for some years now. He worked for 2 years with Telmo Rodríguez, one of the most internationally renown Spanish oenologists, with whom Rivière discovered La Rioja land and wines. Soon he saw that there were vast lands, vines and areas of La Rioja and Navarra yet to be discovered, and started his own wine-making project.
He does not have neither his own winery nor his own vineyars, which is usual in France but not in La Rioja, and bought his grapes in La Rioja Alavesa and Baja. Nowadays Oliviere Rivière is one of the leading wine producers of La Rioja.
Since 2015 he has been part of Rioja 'n' Roll, a alternative movement fromed by a group of independent young producers that unite to advocate for the wine heritage of La Rioja through town wines, applying their own criteria.
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