CVNE - Contino Rioja Vino del Olivo 2016 750ml (750ml)

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Producer	CVNE
Country	Spain
Region	Rioja
Varietal	Tempranillo Blend
Vintage	2016
Sku	SP-RD759
Size	750ml

 

The 2016 Vina del Olivo has to be one of the finest recent vintages of this wine. It's powerful and elegant and has great balance and a lively palate, with focused flavors, great purity and integrated oak. It's very young and seems to have all the ingredients for a long development in bottle. It's tasty, long, very pure and is salty rather than sweet. ~ Luis Gutierrez, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate  

Viñedos del Contino is a wine estate in Rioja Alavesa known for its age-worthy red wines based on Tempranillo, and often featuring Graciano.It was founded in 1973 as a partnership between the owners of Finca San Rafael in Alavesa, and a group of directors from CVNE. Since the end of 2013 the CVNE group has owned 95 percent of the company. Along with Remelluri, Contino is regarded as a pioneer of single-vine- yard wines and the château concept in the region. This is in contrast to the traditional system of wineries being supplied by network of small growers. There are 62 hectares (153 acres) under vine in Laguardia, on alluvial pebble soils within a bend in the Ebro river, protected by the Cerro de la Mesa (Table Hill). Individual plots are cultivated seprately; fruit is all harvested by hand. The estate combines a modern winery with a 16th-Century cellar for aging wines in optimum temperatures and humidity levels. The former manor house upon which the estate was founded dates back t