Bodegas Aradon stands out as a producer that blends traditional wine-making methods with sophisticated modern techniques. Their innovative approach involves satellite mapping their vineyards (a practice more commonly seen in Australia than in Europe), which helps them identify the ripest plots.
The winery crafts a diverse selection of wines that showcase terroir-driven expressions. All wines are blended from grapes grown in their own vineyards in the vicinity of the villages of Alcanadre and Ausejo. These vineyards are more than 50 years old, grown in poor soils on gentle slopes with a production of less than 3.000kg per hectare.
Manual harvesting and hand picking is used across the estate. Fermentation is spontaneous, using the grapes’ own yeast, at temperatures lower than 26º.
Super classic, fruity, full-bodied Tempranillo, with loads of cherry and ripe plums and a delicious lick of oak. On the nose it's toasty/smoky and spicy, with layers of rich and ripe black fruit. The palate is subtle with soft and silky tannins. A very fine expression of rioja: dry finish but classically styled tobacco-leaf fruit and great restraint. Very satisfying, super-clean and well balanced.
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