Contino Viña del Olivo

For the production of Contino Viña del Olivo, the best bunches of grapes from our from plot Viña del Olivo (located around an old olive tree which is approximately 700 years old) are selected by hand. Fermentation takes 10 days at 28-30ºC in our 100 hectoliter French oak vats. And 10 days maceration post-fermentation. Malolactic fermentation developed in new French y American oak barrels successively during 16 months, followed by 3 months in oak casks until bottling

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R. PARKER - WINE ADVOCATE

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JAMES SUCKLING

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TIM ATKIN

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DECANTER

DATA SHEET

Name of the Wine

Contino Viña del Olivo

Winery

Viñedos del Contino

Region of Production

Rioja

Year

2019

Grape Variety

85% tempranillo
5% mazuelo
10% graciano

TECHNICAL DETAILS

2019 2018

MATERIAL

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“Viñedos del Contino was born in 1973, establishing the “château” concept in the Rioja region. Its wines are made exclusively from the vines planted on its 62 hectares. The estate’s vineyards embrace its ancestral home within a meander in the River Ebro, located in Laserna, near the village of Laguardia in the Rioja Alavesa region”

DISCOVER MORE Contino Mazuelo

“Contino Don Vicente is the expression of one of our precious varieties at Finca San Rafael, Mazuelo. Through a meticulous viticulture, the vines offers us each year the freshness, acidity and complexity that characterize Contino wines. This time we have decided to capture those characteristics into a single variety wine; Mazuelo. Contino Mazuelo Don Vicente breaks with the schemes of a forgotten variety, although including a common factor that characterizes the wine, the seriousness of Contino”