Bodega Lanzaga Las Beatas 2020

The super elegant perfumed and floral 2020 Las Beatas comes from grapes harvested on the eighth of October normal dates despite the warmer year after suffering hail in May but some rain in September slowed things down. This is a very regular wine even in a strange year when Graciano ripened before Tempranillo. The wine produced with zero technology like the wines from yesteryear has moderate ripeness and 14% alcohol. Despite being in the glass for over one hour it didn't show any signs of ripeness at all. It has a very sleek and silky palate with refined ultra elegant tannins that give it a superb texture. This is one of the greatest wines from Rioja and from Spain with clockwork regularity. 1527 bottles were filled in April 2022.

1.9 hectares in the most northwest part of Rioja Alavesa, where the continental conglomerates of the Miocene are mixed with sandstone and with outcrops of marl from the last period of the Tertiary. Ten levels of terraces facing east, south and northwest. Old vineyards combined with some young vineyards. Eight, maybe nine, local varieties. Las Beatas is an exceptional site, capable of providing water to the vineyards on a regular basis, as only "grand crus" can do. Aged in foudre in an old and cold cellar.