Winemaker Notes
Biga de Luberri means kindness, distinction and original personality culminating in a wine that has had a safe, quiet and serene evolution. In its aroma we may identify a clean red fruit aroma along with the scents of its twelve months of aging: leather, spices, noble woods. Its mouthfeel is bright and elegant, and its flavor, even highlighting the aging tastes –vanilla, wood, smoke–, keeps the fruity acidity. At the same time, it has a glint of aromatic herbs which takes us to the vineyards where it comes from.
Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.
Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.