Descrição

O Yjar 2019 é o resultado de um esforço incrível na Rioja Alavesa para oferecer um vinho excelente, com taninos muito finos e um final longo. Ele nos presenteia com notas de cerejas pretas, mirtilos e cacau em pó

Detalhes do produto

A adega
La Granja de Remelluri
Tipo
Tinto
Colheita
2019
Álcool
14.5% vol.
Produção
9.49 garrafas.
Variedade
Tempranillo, Graciano, Garnacha, Granegro, Rojal
Origem
Rioja

Prova

Vista
De cor granada brilhante e profunda.
Nariz
Notas de cereja preta, mirtilo e cacau em pó.
Boca
Tinto rico, intenso e de corpo médio a encorpado, com taninos redondos e sedosos. Final persistente.
Temperatura de servir
Recomenda-se servir a 16 °C.

Vinha e preparação

Descrição
Vinha velha em altitude (entre 600 e 800 metros), em vaso, plantada com uma seleção massal de Tempranillo, Graciano, Garnacha, Granegro e Rojal. Tem todo o caráter e qualidade de um autêntico «Grand Cru». Está localizado em La Granja de Remelluri, propriedade situada nas encostas da serra de Toloño, em Labastida, Álava.
Solo
Calcário num ambiente onde estão alguns dos vinhedos mais antigos da Rioja Alavesa.
Colheita
Vindima manual entre 6 e 18 de outubro.
Vinificação
Fermentação natural com leveduras autóctones em cubas de madeira.

Avaliação dos especialistas

James Suckling:

A more fragrant Yjar this year, more peppery and lifted. Chalk, pepper and mezcal-like herbs with hints of cedar and cocoa powder to the blueberries. Super refined tannins tread carefully on the medium- to full-bodied palate with great juiciness and a long, polished finish. An intrinsic expression. Already delicious now, but will hold, too.

The Wine Advocate:

The 2019 Yjar is the third vintage of their top-of-the-range wine designed for the international market and sold through the négociant system of Bordeaux. It was produced with a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano and other grapes from 3.8 hectares of selected plots from the Remelluri vineyards, cropped from a challenging year with frost. This feels young but already very Rioja, marked by the Garnacha, which could represent around 30% of the bottled blend. It's tense and has abundant but fine-grained tannins, a little Italian in style. They kept a lower alcoholic degree in 2019, a moderate 14%, and the wine comes through as very elegant. This has to be my favorite vintage of Yjar. It spent 30 months in barrels of different sizes and foudres. 9,049 bottles were filled in June 2022.

Tim Atkin:

One of the few Riojas that's sold through the Place de Bordeaux, this field blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Granegro and Rojal from a 3.8-hectare parcel has been a tremendous critical success since its launch in 2017. Every bit as good as the previous two releases, it's nuanced, bright and appealingly chalky, with dusty, fine-grained tannins, scented oak, redcurrant, cassis and raspberry fruit and a tapered, lingering.

Decanter:

Single-vineyard wine, from a 3.8 ha plot with a field blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Granegro and Rojal, on a loam-calcareous soil, selected after several years of site research. At the heart of Rioja Alavesa. One of the most delicate, complex and deep Rioja wines ever tasted by me, a real jewel with accurate aromatic definition, precise and intense expression and, most of all, an amazing mouthfeel, with extremely fine grain and perfect balance. The finish is very slow and multi-layered, a feast for the senses, but I retain as the most appealing characteristic that unforgettable tact.