This weekend in San Sebastian Akelarre’s restaurant has organized a wine tasting of the D.O.Rueda appelation where our wine GarciGrande 2016 has been selected as wine of height. As for the wine and the winery, the article said: “Walk through the vineyards of La Seca and find those gravels in an impossible land where these wines come with such personality. From there comes the Señorío de Garcigrande 2016, la verdejo and the wine is deep, and it maintains the freshness. “In addition, the winery makes a selection of the grapes that come in. This is how vegetable aromas, dried herbs, peaches and anise are produced by fennel. As for its tasting: “Bright yellow with green hues. Intense fruit aromas, prevailing peach and apricot. Spicy hints green herbs and aniseed. Pleasant and subtle entry. Round and well balanced, smooth and persistent. Very elegant.”
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#Hispanobodegas around the world
The preferences of our Madrid’s Team are…. Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Rueda.
Discover it in this video.
portada video vinos favoritos de rioja, ribera del duero o rueda del equipo de hispanobodegas madrid
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Can Vegans Drink Wine?
To know the answer first of all you need to know more of them:
- The name ‘vegan’ comes from ‘vegan’ Anglicism created from ‘veganian’.
- November 1 is “World Vegan Day”.
- In their diet, vegans are strictly vegetarian and completely exclude any animal products.
- Vegans not might use animal products in clothing (as leather, wool, and silk), toiletries and similar.
- Avoid any product tested on animals: not on animal experiments.
- They reject shows where animals are used.
- Do not confuse veganism with environmentalism. The main difference between a vegan and vegetarian is that Veganism deals with each individual animal and its interests, while environmentalism is concerned with the conservation of species in general (both animal and plant).
- Wines, as same as other foods, use gelatins or products of animal origin, for example, for grapefruit juice. The Hispanobodegas’s wines and concretely of Bodegas Valdelacierva (Rioja) and Bodegas and Viñedos Gormaz (Ribera del Duero) are apt to be drunk by the vegans. ¿Do we toast with a 12 Linajes red wine of Ribera del Duero? Or Do we accompany any vegan recipe with a Valdelacierva Rosé wine from the Denomination of Origin Rioja?
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TVE: News about Valdelacierva Rosé unique wine of Rioja
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Valdelacierva Rosé, the wine of Rioja that has been chosen by Fashion4Relief
Valdelacierva Rosé 2016 from Hispanobodegas was the wine from Rioja chosen for the frundraising event “Fashion for Relief”. The event took place yesterday at the Mandelieu Hangar in Cannes. It had the support of many personalities, from the fashion, cinema and music industries and important companies, such as Uma Thurman, Donatella Versace, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Lewis Hamilton or the queen Rania of Jordan. “Fashion for Relief” has as main objective raising funds for several humanitarian and environmental causes, a work that the model has been developing from the 2005.
Fashion For Relief was founded as reply to the Katrina hurricane and it mobilized the model´s friends and the Campbell´s designers to raise funds during the New York Fashion Week. In the following years, it has continued raising funds for the victims of other natural disasters (the Haiti’s earthquake, the tsunami in Japan) and it has also worked with other international charity organizations to raise awareness about the women´s health problems. But its growing approach to the millions of children trapped in humanitarian crises around the world is the purpose of this last edition, whose raised funds are going to be allocated for “Save the Children”.
Valdelacierva Rosé 2016, the wine chosen for the cocktail of the fundraising dinner, has not only co-stared with the best models and actors, it has also co-stared with the best champagnes and wines of the world. This rosé from Valdelacierva, the last one arrived to the Rioja winery of the Hispanobodegas group, got the attention of the fashion personalities because of its uniqueness. It is salmon colored, pale, with an elegant and expressive nose with aromas of fruit, prevailing the strawberry and the peach. On the palate is sweet, voluminous, well-balanced and it has a long and fresh aftertaste.
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Gold & Silver Medals for the wines of Hispanobodegas at the Concours Mundial de Bruxelles
Once again the quality of the wines ofHispanobodegas: AnierVendimiaSeleccionada 2015 and Valdelacierva Grano a Grano 2015 have been honoured, on this occasion, at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2017. Two different wines from different Wine Appelation: Rioja and Ribera del Duero which were awarded medals: “AnierVendimiaSeleccionada 2015” Gold Medal and “Valdelacierva Grano a Grano” Silver Medal. These latest awards are added to the wide and varied list of national and international successes attained by both wines. The competition took place in major achievement given the scale and magnitude of the event.
On the awarded Hispanobodegas wines
Anier Vendimia Seleccionada 2015 is a limited edition wine that is elaborated from the oldest and lower yield. After the malolactic fermentation done in new French Oak barrels, the wine is aged in French Oak barrels (80%) and American (20%), new (80%) and first use for 14 months, being then rounded in the bottle for at least 12 months. Limited edition of 11,646 bottles.Bright and intense cherry red color.Great aromatic complexity, highlighting the presence of ripe fruit and mineral essences. Pleasant, velvety and balsamic ripe red fruit feeling along with elegant ripe tannins, that are rounded and perfectly integrated with a flavourful finish and a nice long aftertaste.
Valdelacierva grano a grano is the latest added wine to the winery. A special product, featuring wines that are born from the terroir, with microvinifications in large barrels differentiated by estate andageing process in French oak.In this way, only small-scale productions, which the land produces with each vintage, come onto the market. This is how Valdelacierva Grano a Grano (or grain by grain) is born; in essence it emerges from the “La Botija” estate with its own unique characteristics -a harvesting process that begins out in the estate, destemming grape by grape and grain by grain in the winery- and eventually grows into a wine.
With a very attractive dense cherry red colour, it has an intense nose of red and black fruits with milky undertones and a subtle spicy touch, characteristic of a good mature tempranillo with cocoa and toffees. A very complex wine on account of its ageing in large French oak barrels, powerful and velvety on the palate with an agreeable and inviting persistence.
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Valdelacierva Grano a Grano
Valdelacierva Grano a Grano 2015, a newborn handcrafted wine destemmed grape by grape, the latest wine from the Hispanobodegas Group.
- A unique estate: “La Botija” with only one variety -Tempranillo- producing 1331 bottles.
- In keeping with the winery group’s new business approach, the Rioja winery launches a special edition: Valdelacierva Grano a Grano.
La Rioja, 27th March.-The Valdelacierva Winery, part of the Hispanobodegas Group, announces the launch of its most special wine: Valdelacierva Grano a Grano 2016. An edition of 1331 bottles from a single estate: “La Botija” situated in Baños de Ebro and with a single variety of grape: Tempranillo. The new business policy, which the Hispanobodegas Winery Group embarked upon a few years ago, has a binary goal involving two lines of business: the first, responding to the expectations of consumers looking for uncomplicated, easy to drink wines; and the second, a more special line, featuring wines that are born from the terroir, with microvinifications in large barrels differentiated by estate and an ageing process in French oak. In this way, only small-scale productions, which the land produces with each vintage, come onto the market. This is how Valdelacierva Grano a Grano (or grain by grain) is born; in essence it emerges from the “La Botija” estate with its own unique characteristics -a harvesting process that begins out in the estate, destemming grape by grape and grain by grain in the winery- and eventually grows into a wine.
With a very attractive dense cherry red colour, it has an intense nose of red and black fruits with milky undertones and a subtle spicy touch, characteristic of a good mature tempranillo with cocoa and toffees. A very complex wine on account of its ageing in large French oak barrels, powerful and velvety on the palate with an agreeable and inviting persistence.
It bears the simplest of labels featuring only the brand without any other distracting elements. In fact, it is the sense of touch which is the main protagonist here, playing an excellent role that in a special way portrays the sense of touching the land and all the primary elements involved in the process of creating this special vintage.
The recommended retail price is 34 euros and it is presented in 75 cl. and Magnum bottles (only 200 units).
About the winery
The history of Valdelacierva is the result of the work of a young team with experience in making quality wines with a clear goal: to produce wines with personality from the terroir that defines the unique character of Valdelacierva wines.
Founded in 1988, it is part of the Hispanobodegas Group which has a presence in Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Rueda. Valdelacierva is located in the heart of the Rioja Alta (Navarrete) and has more than 125 hectares of vineyards, which are divided into small plots with vines that range between 25-130 years old. The winery has a young, dynamic team who look to creating wines with the unmistakable stamp of this special terroir and the quality of the tempranillo taking centre stage. The wines come from selected vineyards in the localities of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Briones, Baños de Ebro and Yécora.
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12 Linajes Reserva 2012 “Gold Bacchus medal”
• More than 1700 submitted wines references which are tasted by 85 national and international experts.
• Bacchus is one of the most important competitions on the international scene that awards the wine excellence.The wine 12 Linajes Reserva 2012 of Bodegas Gormaz has won a Bacchus Gold Medal in the last edition of the Bacchus Competition 2017. This Ribera del Duero is the expression of the philosophy of the winery, which form part of the first group of wineries to receive the official certification of appellation, but not forgetting to update itself to get the excellence on its making process of its wines. The young oenologist, Mª José, from her incorporation to the winery, has been sure about how the wines of Bodegas Gormaz have to be. She saids “our 12 Linajes Reserva borns with the intention to show different expressions of the fine red wine variety in a special soil, as our estates in Atauta are, where are settled old hand-harvested vines that are afterwards selected on the winery”.
The description of the vintage year as “very good” by the Regulatory Council presents 12 Linajes Reserva as a wine made from the land, based on a mix of vineyards settled on slopes, paramo and the bottom of the valley in Atauta. The harvest takes place in the exact moment of the grapes maturity. The vintage 2012 bring us this elegant cherry red wine of an intense and bright layer. It is complex and elegant, dominated by the red fruits. On the palate, it is silky and greasy, sweet, of mature tannins and intense balsamic and toasted notes.Bodegas Gormaz
Founded in 1972, Viñedos y Bodegas Gormaz is a winery with a long track record in the Ribera del Duero region, where it formed part of the first group of wine producers to receive official certification of Appellation. Although the first minutes of the Ribera del Duero D.O. dates from 1980, this Apellation was officially founded in 1982 with 12 submitted wineries, between them there was Viñedos y Bodegas Gormaz. Currently, the winery has 520ha of vineyard divided in more than 1000 small estates grouped in 70 wine growing areas. It is one of the most antique wine growing areas of the country, with an age average of 65 years old; the 70% of the vines are over 80 years old. The winery manages the vineyard in long-term agreements with the viticulturists of the region, which allow to the winery takes part in the ripening and grape selection process, guaranteeing the best quality every year. -
Valdelacierva Crianza 2013 archieves a 90 points in Wine Spectator
Once again, the quality of the wine of Valdelacierva Wineries is recognized. At this time, the prestigious American magazine Wine Spectator has given 90 points to Valdelacierva Crianza 2013. This new puntuation means the recognition for the quality of the wine, which has been able to surpass the 90 points in its latest vintages (2013, 2012 and 2011). Valdelacierva Crianza, staying true to its style and personality, has achieved belonging to the list of reference wines in quality and good making that the magazine does each year. Wine Spectator, one of the most important reference publishers in the wine quality assessment in the United States of America has punctuated to Valdelacierva in its three latest vintages: Valdelacierva 2011 with 91 points; Valdelacierva 2012 with 90 points and Valdelacierva Crianza 2013 with 90 points.
The history of Valdelacierva is the result of a young team work with experience making quality wines with a clearly defined goal: wines with the characteristic personality from the plot which defines the genuineness of Valdelacierva wines.
The Wine Spectator journalist Thomas Matthews defines Valdelacierva Crianza 2013 as “Sleek and lively, this energetic red delivers tart cherry, licorice, fresh herb, mineral and smoky flavors, driven by racy acidity and supported by light, firm tannins. Not assertive, but balanced and lively”.
About Bodegas Valdelacierva.
Founded in 1988, Bodegas Valdelacierva belongs to Hispanobodegas Group which owns wineries in the three most important Appellations in the country: Rioja, Ribera Del Duero, and Rueda. Valdelacierva is located in the heart of Rioja Alta (Navarrete) and it has 125 hectares of vineyards, which are divided in small plots with vines that are between 25-130 years old. The winery has a young and dynamic character and it is inclined towards the elaboration of modern wines, with the seal of the land and the Tempranillo grape variety as protagonists. The wines come from selected vineyards of the localities of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Briones, Baños de Ebro and Yécora.
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Our wines reach importance in the TV Chinese
Without a reason to deny it, it was a real pleasure and a big satisfaction to have been able to show our “values” in the TV Chinese. Starting from the vineyards, harvest manual systems, selection of grapes in the wineries for the production (fermentation) according to places and types of ground, verification of the most modern systems of controlled fermentation, beside our dear and romantic fermentation warehouses of the era of our grandparents, which in our case we are still using and having a complete responsibility of the final result (delicious wines, as “always”). Then the barrel hall where the wine is refined and obtains marvelous aromatic shades. And of course finishing the visit with the tasting of all the before spoken of, to bring back home memories of the bouquets and flavors. We believe that they returned home satisfied of all seen and heard. And we keep on savoring our reasonable pride of “Bodegas Gormaz”.
Note: Hispano Bodegas, has its own Delegation in China. Our Ribera del Duero´s wines, outstanding the brand of 12 LINAJES, are a benchmark in this D.O. for Chinese consumers. We are taking advantage of the case to transmit our sincerest gratitude for all our team in that marvelous country.
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11 wines scored with 90 or more points in Peñin Guide 2017
As you all know, Peñin Guide 2017 is a very important reference when it comes to assessing the qualities of Spanish wines (11,500 wines tasted). Evidently this has a history behind it, which we summarize:
• 2011 Guide: 2 wines with 90 or more points
• 2012 Guide: 4 wines with 90 or more points
• Guide 2013: 6 wines scored with 90 or more points
• 2015 Guide: 7 wines scored with 90 or more points
• 2016 Guide: 9 wines scored with 90 or more points
• 2011 Guide: 11 wines scored with 90 or more points and only 11 wines were tasted!… and fortunately, in all cases, this quantitative increase has been accompanied by an absolute regularity in the scores, from the first moment. We take the opportunity to: congratulate our team of agronomists and oenologists for their outstanding work performance. To our commercial network, to encourage you with all this data to make your management more passionate and convincing. And above all, to thank all the consumers of our wines enormously, giving us the kindness and favor by choosing them. Count on our commitment that we will continue in the line drawn regarding the quality, personality and uniqueness of our wines. That will give us the assurance that you will continue “filling” your glasses with them. Thank you very much.
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Our oenologist of La Rioja travels to Mexico
She took part in several didactic tastings and pairing dinners with different kind of public (directors, managers and waiters) where she helped them to know a little more the wines that they have in their restaurants, the elaboration, the different aromas that the winemaker sensed, the different tastes of each wine, etc. Emma learnt a lot too, as she claimed.
Emma,Our oenologist, returned from Mexico very happy and grateful for the attention and the treatment received in all and each one of the restaurants where she was (Carolo, Zapote, Blanco Colomina, Buena Barra, La Glotonerie, Sylvestre, RestauranteRoseta, Restaurante Eloise en Roma, the J&G and the Galia Chef), and particularly the team of Trinergia Vinos, with Rodolfo at the head; she mentioned: “They have changed my concept about the city and about the wine project. They have made me be more enthusiastic if it is possible, with the desire to go on improving, with the concern to extract the excellence of excellence. Seeing how they believe in the wines and especially how they know to see the virtues as well as the business, has made me learn a lot of our wines and the Hispanobodegas project”.
From D.O.5 Hispanobodegas we are very happy with this trip and grateful with all the people that were with Emma sharing this expience and with her, for making possible this beautiful adventure.
