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Red-full-traditional
859658547856
Color:
Red
Body/Type:
Full Bodied
Style:
Traditional
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Ogga
Grapes:
Tempranillo
Serve At:
59°-64° F
Region:
Spain > Rioja

With ample experience in making and ageing great wines dating back to 1964, Santiago Ijalba Garcia in 1998 left his position as winemaker in a historic Haro bodega to launch his own personal project of signature wines. Today, the family bodega already includes a new generation. Young Roberto Ijalba Perez's passion for oenological innovation and cutting-edge trends are beginning to make their mark. The wines are made with grapes rigorously selected from about 100 hectares of vineyards in Rioja Alta. They are aged in the bodega's fourteen hundred 225-litre French and American oak casks.

The Rioja DOC sits astride the Ebro river, as it winds its way from its source in the Sierra de Cantabria range, to the Mediterranean at it's mouth just below Barcelona. Divided into three subzones, wines of Rioja often depend largely on which part of the region the vines are grown.
To the northwest lies Rioja Alta, where Tempranillo and Garnacha vines grow on the higher elevations of the foothills of the Cantabrias. Next to it is the Basque region of Rioja Alavesa, where the Alava province juts into the Ebro Valley. To the southeast is the hotter, Mediterranean-influenced Rioja Baja, where more of the native Graciano is blended into the area's reds.
Rioja's wines have historically been simple reds, blended and aged in American oak. An influx of French winemaking practices led to more refined efforts at estate-bottling and more judicious use of oak, and more French oak at that. Nowadays the region is struggling to find a cohesive identity, producing excellent wines of both new and old world character.

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