
2019 TENTENUBLO Rioja Blanco
Alavesa Rioja Spain
13%
White
Viura, Malvasía Riojana (Alarije), Jaén Blanca.
Every bottle of this delicious white is numbered. With just over 6000 bottles made, this is certainly small scale, but it packs an impressively neat punch. Not heavyweight at all, but beautifully intense and bright. Ther...(read more)
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2018 XÉRICO Tentenublo
Alavesa Rioja Spain
14%
Red
Viura, Tempranillo.
Roberto Oliván's 'very own house wine', the Xerico is co-fermented Tempranillo and Viura, resulting in a spicy, slightly 'sauvage' wine, with an incredible freshness and energy from whole bunch fermentation. Sligh...(read more)
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2017 TENTENUBLO Rioja Tinto
Alavesa Rioja Spain
14%
Red
Viura, Tempranillo, Garnacha.
Roberto Olifan is crafting wondrous wines on the high ground of Alavesa. Working organically with some gorgeous old bush vines. His wines have a purity and impeccable structure that makes you marvel. This is just one of...(read more)
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2018 LOS CORRILLOS Blanco Tentenublo
Alavesa Rioja Spain
13%
White
Viura, Malvasía Riojana (Alarije), Jaén Blanca.
This is the last vintage of this wine under its own label, alas, as in future it will be blended into the Tentenublo Blanco. Made from Calagraño and 5% Viura and Malvasía, it has plenty of colour, extract a...(read more)
Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com
2017 ESCONDITE DEL ARDACHO Veriquete Tentenublo
Alavesa Rioja Spain
14.5%
Red
Viura, Tempranillo, Garnacha, Malvasia.
Roberto Oliván continues to produce exquisite wines with deep saturated colour and explosive aromatics like this. Veriquete is a plot that is just under half a hectare at nearly 600 Mtrs up in the Sierra Cantabria...(read more)
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2017 ESCONDITE DEL ARDACHO El Abundillano Tentenublo
Alavesa Rioja Spain
15.5%
Red
Tempranillo, Garnacha.
This one-hectare field blend of Garnacha with 10% Tempranillo and Malvasía was planted at the turn of the last century on red clay and sand soils. The resulting wine is rich and well upholstered with plenty of alc...(read more)
Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com
2017 LOS CORRILLOS Rock Abo Tentenublo
Alavesa Rioja Spain
13.5%
Red
Viura, Tempranillo.
Whereas the 'Los Corrillos' label is for a blend of plots around Vinaspre, this one is a single vineyard with a rather rock'n'roll name - it's geographical co-ordinates feature on a label that is otherwise very like the...(read more)
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2016 ESCONDITE DEL ARDACHO Las Guillermas Tentenublo
Alavesa Rioja Spain
13.5%
Red
Viura, Tempranillo.
Wonderful aromas of ripe blackberries warmed by the sun along with more 'sauvage' notes of crushed stems and pith on the palate. Like the Veriquete, but possibly more so, this has immense complexity for such a young wine...(read more)
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