El Camino 2023
Description
Avec une production limitée, El Camino est un vin issu d'une parcelle spécifique, et également le plus exceptionnel parmi ceux élaborés par Torre de Oña. Issu de vieilles vignes situées dans la Rioja Alavesa, ce projet est le premier d'une série dont l'objectif est de préserver et de remettre en valeur des vignobles historiques capables de transmettre l'essence de la grande tradition viticole de la région. Selon les mots du critique de The Wine Advocate, Luis Gutiérrez, « un rioja postmoderne, mûr et enivrant ».
Fiche technique
Dégustation
Vignoble et élaboration
L'avis des experts
The second vintage of their most special wine after 2021 is the 2023 El Camino, which was produced with the grapes from three plots of old head-pruned vines in El Pisón, La Revilla and Las Naves lieux-dits of the village of Elvillar that average 81 years of age. It's mostly Tempranillo with 3% other varieties, including Mazuelo, Garnacha and Viura. The destemmed grapes fermented in small troncoconic stainless steel vats after a nine-day cold soak, and the wine matured in 500-liter French oak barrels for 14 months, including malolactic. It was kept in tank for a further eight months before the components were blended and bottled. It has high ripeness, 15% alcohol, a pH of 3.75, five grams of acidity and just under two grams of unfermented sugar. It's a ripe and heady post-modern Rioja with concentration and clout and surprising balance in an XL style. It's powerful, rich and full-bodied, with lots of power and abundant tannins that suggest leaving it in bottle for a few years before pulling the cork. 7,800 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2025.
Back after a break in 2022, El Camino uses grapes from the higher, cooler part of Elvillar and is an old-vine field blend of Tempranillo and 3% other red and white grapes. Chalky, spicy and intense, it has Nebbiolo-like tannins, flavours of red cherry and plum skin and a mineral core. Needs more time. 2027-35.
Millésimes: 2023 2021
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