Vinedos Hontza Rioja Hontza 2021

Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 60% Tempranillo, 40% Grenache. Taken from 30 year-old vines on clay-limestone soils at 650m elevation, pruned in the gobelet style. Hand-harvested. Fermentation is half destemmed grapes, half whole-cluster in stainless steel. 50% of the wine ages for at least seven months in a 1600L ancient amphora; the remaining half ages in a 500L French oak barrel. Unfined, unfiltered, zero SO2 added. This is Hontza’s flagship or ‘village’ red wine, showing dark fruit, a touch of roundness and spice, and immense freshness and purity.