Fincas de Ganuza Reserva, Remírez de Ganuza, vino tinto (6 unidades)
Bodegas Remirez de Ganuza
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Fincas de Ganuza Reserva, Remírez de Ganuza, red wine (6 units)
75 cl bottle Rioja Wine made from the shoulders of the finest bunches from vineyards aged between 25 and 40 years. One of those wines you can always rely on.
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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, low vine yields and vineyard age, with the vines averaging fifty years old. This extensive vineyard area 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: 2016
Alcohol: 14%

Variety: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano

Tasting notes: Cherry red with very good depth, very dense and bright.
On the nose: Intense, complex and elegant. Reminiscent of wild red fruits, dairy notes, jam and fine mineral nuances.
On the palate: Broad, finely structured, silky and persistent. Fine acidity that brings freshness to the wine.

Serving temperature: 16-18ºC

Production: They are spread across six towns in the Sierra Cantabria: Samaniego, Leza, Elciego, San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Laguardia and Ábalos.
Hand-harvested in 12 kg crates from vineyards aged between 25 and 40 years. Temperature-controlled pre-fermentation cooling in specially designed cold rooms for 24 hours (4-6 degrees). Grapes are selected on a sorting table, with shoulders and tips separated. This wine is made from destemmed cluster shoulders. Fermentation takes place in small stainless-steel tanks and 7,000-liter French oak vats.

Pairing: at Made in Spain Gourmet we recommend it with red meats, stews and legume dishes (lentils, chickpeas or beans, for example). As always, it is also a must with aged sheep’s or goat’s cheeses.

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 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 next to one of the four towers that defended the village.

The Remirez de Ganuza winery, as mentioned above, is located in the center of Samaniego, Álava. It occupies a block of buildings, former village manor houses, and consists of modern reinforced-concrete structures clad in old 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 dedicated to the various stages of winemaking, such as the barrel room, bottle racks, cold rooms and selection area.

The winery’s traditional architecture, highlighted by an interior roof made of centuries-old oak beams, contrasts with one of today’s most avant-garde and innovative winemaking methods.

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

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

Young wines, or reds of the year, are mostly made using the traditional carbonic maceration method, in which whole clusters 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 after removing the stems and macerating the must with the solids for seven days. After several fermentations, the wines are transferred to barrels for aging. The time spent in barrel and bottle determines the difference between Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva wines.

Because rosé and white wines are increasingly appreciated both within Spain and beyond its borders, winemakers and oenologists are working to produce quality wines from these varieties, with the aim of 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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