Viña Coqueta, Remírez de Ganuza, vino tinto (6 unidades)
Bodegas Remirez de Ganuza
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Viña Coqueta, Remírez de Ganuza, red wine (6 units)
Rioja Viña Coqueta wine is made from the La Coqueta vineyard, located at the foot of Samaniego. The orientation and altitude of this plot give its grapes a uniquely ripe character.
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Remirez de Ganuza, a wine paradise in La Rioja

The vineyards comprise more than eighty hectares of Tempranillo, Graciano, Viura, and Malvasía. They are spread across six towns in the Sierra Cantabria: Samaniego, Leza, Elciego, San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Laguardia, and Ábalos, in Rioja Alavesa. In selecting each site, careful consideration was given to the habitat, microclimate, plot orientation, the low productivity of the vines, and the age of the vineyard, with the average age of the vines being fifty years. This extensive area of land allows them to be self-sufficient in grapes of the highest quality.

Technical Sheet

Winery: Estate vineyards at Bodegas Fernando Remírez de Ganuza, Samaniego (Rioja Alavesa).
D.O.Ca. La Rioja
Vintage: 2014
Alcohol: 14.5%

Variety: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano

Tasting notes: Beautiful dark picota cherry-red color. Dense, bright tears.
On the nose: a very intense wine. Notes reminiscent of preserved fruit, balsamic nuances, caramel, and nuts. Mineral notes with hints of graphite.
On the palate: Viña Coqueta is broad and dense on the palate. Toasted and spicy notes come through. Fine tannins.

Serving temperature: 16-18ºC

Winemaking: Hand-harvested in 12 kg crates from grapes grown in a vineyard called Coqueta, 42 years old and located in Samaniego. The grapes are kept at a controlled temperature prior to fermentation in specially designed cold rooms for 24 hours (4-6 degrees). Grapes are selected on a sorting table, separating the shoulders from the tips. This wine is made from destemmed shoulders. Fermentation takes place in small stainless-steel tanks. Aging lasts 26 months in new barrels: 85% French oak, 15% American oak.

Pairing: at Made in Spain Gourmet we recommend it with tapas (gourmet, of course) and appetizers, cured meats, and white meats. This wine is delicious at any time of day. Naturally, a good aged cheese should not be missing as a pairing; even a fine mushroom pâté, almost anything you like.

A traditional winery with avant-garde winemaking

You will find Remírez de Ganuza in the center of Samaniego, a beautiful medieval village at the foot of the Sierra de Toloño. Medieval in origin, it still preserves today the appearance of a fortified village, visible in many of its buildings and especially in the 16th-century Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, built beside one of the four towers that defended the town.

The Remirez de Ganuza winery, as mentioned above, is located in the center of Samaniego, Álava. It consists of a block of buildings, old village manor houses, and is composed of modern reinforced-concrete structures clad in ancient ashlar stone, thus blending into the traditional local architecture.

Around a large central courtyard crossed by a natural water channel, the different buildings that make up the winery are devoted to the various stages of winemaking, such as the barrel room, bottle racks, cold rooms, and selection area.

The winery’s traditional architecture, whose interior roof of centuries-old oak beams stands out, contrasts with one of the most avant-garde and innovative winemaking methods of the moment.

Rioja Alavesa: the elite of La Rioja wines

Rioja Alavesa is classified as a subzone within the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin. It has 13,500 hectares of vineyards and several hundred wineries, producing an annual average of around 40 million liters of wine.

The area is especially known for red wines with specific general characteristics, such as bright, vivid color, a fine aroma, fruity flavor, and a pleasant palate. These qualities are due to the area’s clay-limestone soils, which are excellent for allowing the vines to absorb the moisture they need. Their quality is also enhanced by the climate and the location of the vineyards behind the Sierra de Toloño, which protects the vines from the cold northern winds and allows them to make better use of the warmth.

Red wines are the region’s most representative wines and are made with the Tempranillo varieties (around 79% of the total is produced from this grape), Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano.

Young wines, or red wines of the year, are mostly made using the traditional carbonic maceration method, in which whole bunches are fermented in a “lake” for seven to ten days. Once free of skins and stems, they are transferred to vats where they complete fermentation.

Crianza, Reserva, and Gran Reserva wines, on the other hand, are made using the Bordeaux or destemming method. This consists of crushing the grapes, removing the stems, and incubating the must with its solids for seven days. After several fermentations, they are transferred to barrels for aging. The time spent in barrel and bottle is what marks the difference between Crianzas, Reservas, and Gran Reservas.

Because rosé and white wines are increasingly appreciated both within and beyond Spain’s borders, winemakers and oenologists are working to produce quality wines from these varieties, as part of a commitment to reaching every market.

Bodegas Remirez de Ganuza

Founded in 1989, Bodegas Remírez de Ganuza was born as the personal project of its founder, Fernando Remírez de Ganuza. From the very beginning, the idea has remained the same: to make an exhaustive selection of the grapes and intervene as little as possible in the winemaking process, in order to remain as faithful as possible to both the vintage and the vineyard. Fernando’s work during the 1970s and 1980s in the Rioja Alavesa area, dedicated to buying and selling old vineyards, allowed him to select the most suitable estates in the region for his project. To build his winery, he chose the medieval village of Samaniego, located at the foot of the Sierra de Cantabria. There he found what he was looking for: vines averaging around half a century old, capable of producing grapes that came close to the exceptionally high quality standards he had set for himself. For him, the selection process was—and remains—the essential part. His concept is that the winemaker’s intervention in crafting the wine is secondary; the key, once again, lies in the grape, and each wine must be a faithful reflection of the vintage and the land it comes from. Over the years, elements have been incorporated into the winemaking and aging process that make Remírez de Ganuza a pioneering winery in the application of new techniques. Innovation has been a constant from the outset, as improvements are introduced year after year to raise the quality of the wines. Elements such as the sorting table, cold rooms, or the use of new barrels for wine aging may today be common in other internationally prestigious wineries, but they were not common when they were first implemented here. Other elements, such as the bag used in the extraction of Trasnocho or the machine that washes the grapes with their own must, are examples of the continuous innovation and pursuit of quality carried out at Remírez de Ganuza. The philosophy has not changed since its founding. The only notable change the winery has undergone is that, since 2010, 50% of it has belonged to real estate entrepreneur José Ramón Urtasun, with whom Fernando partnered to undertake the renovations and improvements needed to continue growing. José Urtasun also represents the generational handover, although in the seven years he has been co-managing Remírez de Ganuza, he has not changed in the slightest the ideals that have led to its success. All of their wines are spectacular, and we at Made in Spain Gourmet are very proud to offer them in our online store.
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