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Ukan Blanco, Rioja 2023
Ukan Blanco, Rioja 2023
Organic
SW0118B23K

Ukan Blanco, Rioja 2023 En Primeur (Case of 3)

£99.00
ALC 14.5%
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This wine is still to be bottled and as such the advertised ABV may be subject to change on its eventual arrival and inspection into the U.K.

Based on Viura, with 5% Tempranillo Blanco and 5% of other varieties from old vineyards. Fermented in large open-top vats and mature in French barriques and a huge concrete egg for 12 months. A wine of texture, this is silky and stony, saline and subtly perfumed, offering a core of white fruit and citrus, spring flowers, vanilla and earthy spices, with a distinct mineral thread. Tiny production from low-yield old vines on white soils. 0-7 years.

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Spain, Spain, Rioja

White Wine

Dry & full

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2023

14.5%

Organic

Ukan

Ukan

Ukan

Ukan is a small, boutique winery nestled in the heart of Rioja Alavesa, the brainchild of Koldo Eguren who, with his cousin Eduardo, looked at the sea of old vines growing in tiny vineyard plots and determined to create, in Bordeaux fashion, two wines which reflect the very essence of this superb terrain.

The wines are made in small-batch oak and concrete tanks with a hand-crafted approach including part carbonic maceration, and limited time in oak barrels. The cousins take grapes which represent the very best of fruit from vineyards that stretch from Labastida, through Sonsierra to Laguardia, the heartland of the Alavesa. Sustainable and ecological agriculture is at the heart of this project and, concentrating on minimal intervention, they shape the two wines: Senderos de Ukan which is warm, smooth and rich, bursting with ripe classy red fruit with a velvety finish; and bigger brother, Ukan, featuring the grapes coming from the oldest vines - more dark fruit, swish tannins, and a gorgeous texture from French oak, all wrapped up like a classic Bordeaux-style red. They are two of the most exciting wines to come out of Rioja, full of quality, approachable now but both have room to age: a modern glass of Rioja that reflects its sense of place.

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