La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Selectión Especial Reserva 2015

A perennial top selling Spanish wine at the Bottle Shop, this Rioja is from the famous bodega named La Rioja Alta, founded in 1890 as a partnership of 5 quality-conscious growers keen to focus upon the export potential for well-made, ‘modern’ Rioja. At this time, French vineyards were ravaged by phylloxera, and connoisseurs were having to look elsewhere for supplies of fine wine. Rioja, with its excellent climate and soils, had already attracted attention, and experiments with Bordeaux-style vinification and barrique-aging were proving very successful.