Rosario Vera 2018 Red Wine

Elaboration

Rosario Vera is not simply a wine — it is a tribute. The Gil family has been making wine in Rioja Alavesa for more than a century, growing across generations into one of the appellation's most respected and continuously evolving winemaking families. At the heart of their story is Rosario Vera herself — the mother and co-founder of the family's winemaking legacy, a woman who fought against every adversity for the love of her land and her family, and whose name her children and grandchildren chose to place on their most personal and most endearing project as the most honest and most permanent act of gratitude they could offer. The wine is made from hand-picked Tempranillo sourced from vineyards between 15 and 60 years old in the Laguardia municipality of Rioja Alavesa, where clay-rich limestone soils give the variety the mineral depth and structural character that the best vintages are selected and merged to express at their highest level. Fermented in stainless steel, given malolactic fermentation in French oak and aged 10 months in barrel — a process as careful and considered as the woman it honours.