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Rioja

Gran Cerdo Blanco 2022

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Product Information

Country
Spain
Region
Rioja
Grape Variety
Viura
Vintage
2022
ABV
12.5%
Closure
Cork
Bottle Size
75cl

Description

Gran Cerdo Blanco is a medium bodied, fruity, dry and good value natural white wine. Viura being the preodminant grape, the wine is a different, fresh and great value natural wine from the Rioja region.

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Gran Cerdo Blanco

Gran Cerdo Blanco is a medium bodied, fruity, dry and good value natural white wine. Viura being the preodminant grape, the wine is a different, fresh and great value natural wine from the Rioja region.

Gonzalo Gonzalo was born in Logroño, Spain and grew up among the vineyards that his parents cultivated in Fuenmayor. After studying biology in León and oenology in the university of Rioja, he dedicated himself to travelling through France and Italy where he met small vine-growers and winemakers and discovered new varieties of grape and technologies After completing his oenologist training in an industrial winery, in 2003 he abandoned everything to give birth to Orgullo, his personal oenology project.

Fiercely protective of the terroir of his family vineyards Gonzalo rejects market driven fashions, formulae, chemical treatments and conformism. Instead he has sought out his own methods with respect for the land, his vineyards, and the traditions of his forefathers. He balances this respect with formal training in the latest enological techniques and methods.

Gonzalo was profoundly influenced in his choice of viticultural methods by the fact that his father became seriously ill from years of daily exposure to high-spec chemical fertilizers and herbicides while tending their vineyards in the 1970s, when they were regarded as the panacea for all vineyard problems. It was not clear at the time that chemicals that were perfectly safe in small doses had significant harmful effects from cumulative, long term exposure. The soil itself suffered as well, losing its vitality as witnessed in the deadening of the biodiversity in the vineyard. Wild flowers, insects, earth worms, snails and the various organisms of the vineyard ecosystem were no longer present as they were even two generations ago.

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