Red Wine with Barrel Ageing

• Exhibitor: BODEGAS MANZANOS
• Brand name: Voché 5ª Generación
• Sector: DOCa Rioja

Wine comes from three plots:

Los molinos: it is a vineyard of Graciano variety of 7 hectares with compact, calcareous clay soil, it is located at 450 meters altitude. The vines are over 20 years old. The rootshave to work hard to get through the compactness of the soil. The soil is very poor, andthe vegetation development is very limited. The Graciano is mature but fresh.

Los almendros: it is a vineyard of Grenache variety located in the neighbourhood of Aldeanueva de Ebro, which has an altitude of 420 meters. It is a Grenache cultivated on three hectares planted twice. The first plantation is 40 years old and the second is 35 years old. It is a clay-ferrous soil with good structure and depth. It is a Grenache with spicy hints.

La Loma: it is red Tempranillo vineyard located in the village of Santa Engracia, last town of La Rioja inscribed in the DO Ca Rioja before reaching the Iberian mountain range, gateway to the plateau. Vineyard located at 730 meters altitude on a hillside with southern exposure. Soil is clay-ferrous with good structure and depth.

The malolactic fermentation is done in new French oak barrels and second year. The wine remains 36 months aging in French oak barrels after which the wine is refined in concrete tank and then in bottle.

Bodegas Manzanos gives its name to the group of wineries that best represents the identity of the Fernández de Manzanos family. These are three wineries: Azagra and Haro, in the Rioja DOCa and Campanas, in the Navarra DO. In these, the young team of the fifth generation of the family produces quality wines that are already acclaimed around the world. Its quality is already determined by its origin: its own extensive vineyard that they treat with the care of those who appreciate the difference of the fruit of nature.

Their vineyard extension in different sub-areas of the appellations gives them the power to play with the nuances of the terroir and the exquisite production process is completed in their cellars. In Rioja they have the emblematic and oldest winery of the denomination in Haro and its contemporary winery in Azagra, both using gravity as the architectural principle of production. Campanas is also the oldest in the Navarra DO. Years of sustained growth guarantee these young people who earn the respect and reputation of their wines day after day.