CVNE / Bodegas Contino: Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva 2020

CVNE / Bodegas Contino: Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva 2020

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Viura 95%, Palomino Fino 5%
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hvid, tør
13,5% Vol.
Modenhed til at drikke: 2024–2036
Pakket ind i: 6s
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Lobenberg: 94/100
Suckling: 94/100
Tim Atkin: 94/100
Parker: 92+/100
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Spanien, Rioja
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Allergener: Sulfitter,
lobenberg

Heiner Lobenberg om:
Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva 2020

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/100

Næsten ren Macabeo eller Viura fra ren kalksten i 600 meters højde. Eksponering mod øst. Trådramme mod vinden. Schlegel-flaske a la Riesling ... noget af et statement. Gammeldags som CVNE plejede at være. Hele klasen presses på gamle kurvepresser. Sedimentation i beton, gæring i stål, modning i 300 til 5oo liters botas = tonneau. Delvis under blomstergær, som giver denne særlige Kamillear-aroma og nøddeagtighed. Kun 8 måneder, derefter 2 år på flaske. Meget mindre manzanilla-smag i munden end Gran Reserva, nøddeagtig og en let træagtig note understøtter kvæden og den milde Reineclaude. Fineste smag og saftigt, mildt drikkeflow, en rigtig godbid med ubesværet finesse. En unik berigelse af hvidvinene fra Rioja, gammel stor stil!

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/100

Suckling om: Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva

Honeysuckle, honey, pears and flint as well as almond paste. Medium body. Tight and focused with a richness, but not heavy. Nutty and honey flavors with just a hint of salted nuts. Viura. Aged eight months with some barrels under flor, like in fino Sherry. Drink now.

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/100

Tim Atkin om: Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva

CVNE's superb white - now sold as a Reserva rather than a Genérico - is a blend of Viura from the bodega's La Plana vineyard and 5% Palomino, aged in a combination of oak barrels and Sherry casks. Salty, bright and refined, it has notes of blanched almond and citrus peel and a toasty undertone.

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Parker om: Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva

The white 2020 Monopole Clásico Reserva (which now includes "Reserva" in the name, which it was before but it wasn't explicit on the label) replicates the wines from the 1960s, letting the juice settle in concrete and fermenting it in stainless steel, then matured in oak barrels and Sherry butts, where it matured for eight months. They are reducing the amount of Manzanilla they add to the wine, as they have managed to grow a veil of flor yeasts in the butts filled with Viura wine. The Sherry twang is even subtler than in the past. The wine has 13.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.34, 5.31 grams of acidity and a mellower mouthfeel than in previous years, but those Sherry notes grow with time in bottle. It's a lighter year (it shows the vintage), savory and different but subtler. 25,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2023.

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Bodegas Contino

Bodegas Contino ligger i Laserna på alluvial jord med masser af kalksten og småsten nær Ebro, i en bugtning af floden nedenfor Laguardia i Rioja Alavesa, klart den bedste region i Rioja og dermed i Spanien med hensyn til terroir og mikroklima.

Rioja CVNE Monopole Clasico Reserva 2020