Honorio Rubio, Rioja Blanco Macerado, 2020 SO092525 Schonleber The 2000 was a declared

The 2000 was a declared vintage

Courbes Raies

Magnum format slows the evolution — this is a wine you can confidently rest for a decade or more

It is not flashy or showy

and sweet vermouth—blended with precision and bottled for instant enjoyment

Honorio Rubio, Rioja Blanco Macerado, 2020 SO092525 Schonleber The 2000 was a declaredRioja is not where most people go hunting for skin contact wine. Bodega 220 Cantaras, up in the high village of Cordovin, makes one anyway: Viura fermented and then left in contact with its skins for an extended maceration, reported at up to about twelve months, bottled with only a light filtration. The technique is borrowed from Georgia and the eastern Mediterranean, and applied here to Rioja's workhorse white grape it turns Viura from something