Sierra Cantabria Finca El Basque 2019

Sierra Cantabria Finca El Basque 2019Region: Rioja, Spain Varietal: Tempranillo Tasting Notes: Elegance, finesse and balance of the El Bosque, which shows very integrated oak and velvety tannins. It comes from deep gravel soils that produce powerful wines, but somehow this 2019 is very elegant, and it's already approachable. For Marcos Eguren, this shows what El Bosque is. This matured in new oak barrels, 95% of them French and the rest from central Europe. 5,000 bottles were filled in

The nose opens with toasted hints enriched with notes of ripe red fruits and pleasant shades of purple

Elegance and value

cigar box and iron ore over a core of crushed blackberries and black cherries with intermittent wafts of black and red currants

The scent is typical of Croatina and Ughetta grapes and of the land where the vines grow

An arresting dried herb/nori savouriness to the fore on this wine backed up beautifully by black fruits

concentrated fruits and tons of spicy and earthy accents

for an overall sensation of a very long and pleasing wine

orange peel and a delicate honey note on the nose

flower and a little spice

blackberry fruits

nutty harmony to the riper citrus and white strawberry notes

notes of lemon and a beautiful concentration