Product Profile
Bodegas Exopto Rioja 'Bozeto' de Exopto 2010
Medium-Full Bodied, Dry, Red Wine. 50% Garnacha 30% Tempranillo 20% Graciano. Drink now or cellar. 14% alc.
Tasting Notes
2010 was an excellent vintage across northern Spain and especially for the smaller grower-producers such as Exopto. Bozeto's Garnacha is fermented and aged in small temperature-controlled tanks (concrete and stainless) to capture all of the fruits bright, jubey charms while the barrel matured Tempranillo and Graciano add a smooth, spicy sheen. Loaded with juicy, plump blackberry fruit, cedar, spice and all things nice, this is as good a young Rioja as we have tasted. If you like your Rioja in a supple, layered style marked by authentic, dry grown intensity then you will find a lot to like in this wine. It's a very polished - though not overworked - and pure example of contemporary Rioja.
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.