2021 | Bodegas Queirón Mi Lugar Tempranillo Blanco | Rioja | Spain Pfalz vivid and beautifully sleek blackcurrant

vivid and beautifully sleek blackcurrant

tar and rose over firm

A rich and full-bodied wine with aromas of berries

dark red berries waft from the glass with notions of wilted flowers and a fine mineral essence

It's rich and cedary (aged in 88% new French oak) but loaded with plums and blackberries

2021 | Bodegas Queirón Mi Lugar Tempranillo Blanco | Rioja | Spain Pfalz vivid and beautifully sleek blackcurrantA rare grape found nowhere else on earth Tempranillo Blanco from a high altitude organic Rioja estate. Bodegas Queirn is the Prez family estate in Quel, Rioja Oriental, farming high altitude vines (600800m) transitioning to fully organic. "Mi Lugar" is their first white made from Tempranillo Blanco, a natural mutation indigenous and exclusive to Rioja, only permitted since 2007. It's a village wine (Vino de Municipio) and an homage to Quel itself: