Sierra de Toloño Rioja Alavesa, 2023 light 5% Petit Verdot and 1%

5% Petit Verdot and 1% Malbec from Napa Valley

steak with chimichurri

For this beer

This is a BIG wine

most likely due to the cooler nights the grapes experience up in the hilly vineyards

Sierra de Toloño Rioja Alavesa, 2023 light 5% Petit Verdot and 1%The mountains of Sierra de Toloo, with their clay and limestone rocky soils, are perfect conditions to grow Tempranillo. This is Sandra Bravo's "soldier", the wine that points the way to some of the most elegant expressions of Rioja Alavesa we've encountered. Harvested by hand, mid October, the wine ferments spontaneously and then ages for 8 months in neutral barrels, and a little bit in amphorae. It is bottled unfiltered and unfined. Spicy, textured,