Product Profile
Bodegas Exopto Rioja Exopto 2009
Medium-Full Bodied, Dry, Red Wine. 60% Graciano, 20% Garnacha, 20% Tempranillo. Drink now or cellar. 14% alc.
Tasting Notes
This wine is a clear example of what's possible when Rioja's best terroirs and grapes are combined with Rioja's finest traditional and modern winemaking methods by an extremely talented winemaker. The end result is a wine that can age for many decades. Exopto is a clean, modern interpretation of a traditional Rioja wine. Exopto, or 'to desire greatly' in Latin, is the flagship wine of this cool garage wine producer. The 60% Graciano makes this impressive cuvee a unique wine that not only shows the added complexity of flavors with ageing, it also conveys a message of purity and beauty that is associated with fine, low production "Grand Cru" Riojas.
Producer
Bodegas Exopto
Exopto’s old vine holdings surround the town of Abalos at an altitude of 600-plus metres in the Rioja Alavesa district. Of the three districts in Rioja (Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Baja), Rioja Alavesa is the coolest and has the highest rainfall. So the grapes ripen very late and the resulting wines are naturally the most refined. On the other hand, Exopto’s old vines add intensity and length. Exopto’s Tempranillo vines are between 50-100 years old, their Garnacha (Grenache) vines are 70 years old and their Graciano, 30 years old. Soils here are clay and limestone over a sandy, rocky base. Almost entirely French oak is used in the ageing process.