Urbina Seleccion Rioja

Region

Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain

Vintage:

1999

Producer:

Bodegas Urbina

Grapes:

Tempranillo

Wine Description:

A selection of the very best Tempranillo from 30 year old vines, aged in cask for 15 months. In the refined elegant style of Urbina, fragrant Tempranillo cherry and spice fruit on the nose and palate.

Tasting Note:

Intense, dark ruby red, very concentrated nose of berries, damsons, and figs, full-bodied, rich fruit cake and savoury vanilla flavours on the palate, well-structured, mellow, firm tannins with the fine elegance of the Urbina marque.

Producer Description

Salvador Urbina in 1870 moved to Cuzcurrita and produced the first wine wines, with vineyards still used in Urbina wines.

His sons Ciriaco and Paquita continue the profession, and they are Pedro and Jesús Angel, grandchildren of Salvador, who in 1986 began to produce in the current cellar in stainless steel tanks.

Currently the winery leads the fourth generation, Angel, Pedro and Santiago are important professionals in the sector, (catadores, researchers, engineers and doctors), backed by a great winemaking experience.