"Framed by the textbook white florals and backed by a savoury, baked sourdough nose, the palate shows incredibly freshness and vitality, medium bodied by full of bright citric characters alongside a soft white grape note and gently mineral finish. Pulled from the small parcels of Viura dotted through the pre-dominately red vineyards in the foothills of the Sierra de Tolono.
Sierra de Tolono is a member of an exciting but small cadre of new Rioja producers who are driving towards fresher, more terroir focused wines that place their emphasis on the vineyards rather than on the length of time any particular wine spends in a barrel. Run and owned by the indomitable Sandra Bravo, Sierra de Tolono produces incredibly elegant wines from old plots dotted around the cold, high altitude lands around the town of Rivas de Tereso, in Rioja Alavesa. Her single vineyard offerings show the sort of detail and complexity that old vineyards in these parts can produce but she’s also making some of the best value, quaffable but serious, Rioja getting around." - Alimentaria Wine Importers
