Sierra Cantabria Colección Privada, vino tinto
Bodega Sierra Cantabria
Sierra Cantabria Colección Privada, Red Wine
A collector’s wine by brothers Marcos and Miguel Eguren, made by Bodega Sierra Cantabria in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, a small town at the foot of the Sierra Cantabria, in the D.O.Ca Rioja. A single-varietal Tempranillo from vineyards over 50 years old.
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Original Made in Spain 2025

Technical Sheet

Winery: Viñedos Sierra Cantabria.
D.O.Ca: Rioja
Vintage: 2020
Alcohol: 14.5%
Variety: 100% Tempranillo.

Tasting notes: Sierra Cantabria Colección Privada is a mature red wine with an elegant aroma of red fruit alongside aromatic woods, spice notes, hints of caramel and chocolate bonbon. On the palate it is flavorful, powerful and well structured, with notes of wild berries, violets and licorice. Creamy, broad, with sweet tannins. Long and persistent.

Harvest: Thorough hand harvesting in crates, with manual selection of clusters in optimal ripeness and health, both in the vineyard and at the winery using a double sorting belt. It took place from October 8 to 11, 2020.

Serving temperature: 16ºC

Winemaking: traditional, with two vinifications: destemmed grapes (50%) and whole-cluster vinification (50%). 12 days of maceration with the skins. Daily pump-overs, decreasing in frequency during the final days. Fermentation with indigenous yeast selected from our own vineyards and controlled temperature (23ºC). Malolactic fermentation in barrel. Aged for 16 months in new French and American oak barrels. Bottled in June 2022.

Pairing: at Made in Spain Gourmet we recommend it with red meats in sauce, roast white meats, roast red meats, white meats in sauce, stews, beef, roast pork and big game. It is also ideal with a fine board of well-aged sheep’s and goat’s cheeses. It can also be enjoyed on its own, with a good book.

The purity of the terroir

Five generations of winegrowers with roots in San Vicente de la Sonsierra have woven a long history of complicity between people and vine, drawing out the vineyard’s finest virtues and making every effort to convey its expressiveness in truly distinctive wines.

Marcos Eguren, in charge of winemaking, and Miguel Eguren, managing the group as president, lead a viticultural project in search of wines that evoke the vineyard, with great versatility and a marked personality. These wines belong to the new classics: wines that endure over time, combining fruit, power and structure with elegance, freshness and subtlety.

Sierra Cantabria, Viñedos Sierra Cantabria, Señorío de San Vicente and Viñedos de Páganos make up their projects in the D.O.Ca. Rioja, alongside their presence in the D.O. Toro with the Teso La Monja winery. The family and its wineries enjoy national and international prestige, and have received many distinctions and awards.

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 distinctive 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 enabling the vines to absorb the moisture they need. The climate and the location of the vineyards, sheltered behind the Sierra de Toloño, also contribute to their quality by protecting the vines from cold northern winds and allowing them to make better use of the warmth.

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

Young wines, or the year’s red wines, are mostly made using the traditional carbonic maceration method, in which whole clusters are fermented in a vat, or “lago,” for seven to ten days. Once separated from skins and stems, they are transferred to tanks to complete fermentation.

Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva wines, meanwhile, are made using the Bordeaux method, or destemming. This involves crushing the grapes, removing the stems and macerating the must with the grape 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 Crianzas, Reservas and Gran Reservas.

As rosé and white wines are increasingly appreciated both in Spain and abroad, winemakers and oenologists are working to produce quality wines from these varieties, in an effort to reach every market.

Bodega Sierra Cantabria

Since 1870, over five generations, the Eguren family has devoted itself to cultivating vineyards and producing and aging some of Rioja’s finest wines. Keeping knowledge and tradition alive, they have passed them down from parents to children, always adapting them to technological advances and to respect for the land and the vine. The family and its wineries enjoy national and international prestige, having received distinctions and awards in both arenas. Teso La Monja marked the beginning of a new era in Toro. The brothers Marcos and Miguel Eguren, of Sierra Cantabria, have spent years contributing to the transformation of this town in Zamora. They fell in love with Toro’s old pre-phylloxera vines and their ability to give rise to unique wines. The success behind these wines unfolded in several stages. Initially, the Eguren brothers acquired the Numanthia Termes winery, where they produced Termanthia, the wine that earned them 100 Parker points. In 2008 they sold this winery to Louis Vuitton Möet Hennessy (LVMH) in order to set out on their own path and seek new vineyards with very specific characteristics, also in the lands of Toro. These vineyards also have more gravel on the surface, face north, and have longer vegetative cycles. All of this is aimed at obtaining wines that convey balance and elegance while extracting the land’s full potential. These vineyards also have more gravel on the surface, face north, and have longer vegetative cycles. All of this is aimed at obtaining wines that convey balance and elegance, extracting the land’s full potential. Construction of the Teso La Monja winery, however, began before the sale of Numanthia Termes to LVMH. It was in 2006, on several hectares of associated vineyard. There stands a winery of sober architectural beauty, whose design perfectly combines the most contemporary vision for crafting great wines with the experience, history, and savoir-faire of the past. Modernity built on solid foundations. In this context, the wines Románico, Almirez, Victorino, Alabaster and Teso La Monja are produced. Wines that convey the essence of Tinta de Toro with subtlety and freshness, two hallmark attributes of all Eguren wines. Vines. Thus, Teso La Monja has 90 hectares of planted vineyard, mostly own-rooted and native, located in the towns of Valdefinjas, Toro and Villabuena. At Teso La Monja, sustainable agriculture is also practiced, with organic fertilization and meticulous work in the cellar. Traditional methods are combined with the most modern technology to extract the mineral nuances of privileged soils.";}i:1;a:3:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Zoltan Nagy’s Opinion";s:2:"id";s:19:"opinion-zoltan-nagy";s:7:"content";s:659:" blockquote “A small-production wine, penetrating and delicate” /blockquote strong Zoltan Nagy, /strong is a em Wine Connoisseur /em who introduces us to many little-known corners of the Spanish wine world that have yet to become widely known or discovered by the public. Zoltan Nagy is a wine writer, columnist in various digital media, and the personal brand of Romero and MadeinSpain in the world of wines. Member of the Spanish Association of Wine Journalists and Writers (AEPEV). He is also an expert in wine and gastronomy experiences in Spain for foreigners. In one sentence: he sells happiness through wine.
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