Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto 2022 henriques-henriques What began as an experimental

What began as an experimental wine in 2008 as a homage to winemaker Giovani Manetti's late father

The subsequent ageing is in wooden deposits of different sizes for around 7 months

The judicious

Lemon straw with green hues

finishing with subtle notes of tonic water

Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto 2022 henriques-henriques What began as an experimentalExoptos villages level wine is a blend of 80% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha and 10% Graciano drawn from a dozen old vine plots entirely in the western Sonsierra zone (per Villar and Gil, 2019) in the lee of the Sierra Cantabria ranges. Previously based solely on balos vines, from 2020 onwards, the wine includes fruit from the old vines of Los Pozos and El Sacramento in San Vicente, in addition to grapes (20% in 2021) from a vineyard in Baos de Ebro