Vinoteca Historia De Santalba Box

Our welcome box to the James Frost Vinoteca includes a 2016 Historia De Santalba and two handmade Kimura Pivo 390 wine glasses enclosed in a walnut box lined with reindeer moss. These are numbered bottles of a small from Bodega Santalba S.A. We have a limited supply of this once-in-a-lifetime wine!

Due to SLGA rules, we can only sell these subscriptions to Saskatoon residents. We hope to expand our coverage soon. We will deliver each box to your home.

Brand: Historia De Santalba

Type of wine: Red wine

Origin: D.O.Ca. Rioja

Subregion: Rioja Alta 

VITICULTURE 

Grapes varieties: 80% Tempranillo+20%others 

Vineyards: +120 years

Vineyard location: Gimileo

Vineyard training: Bush 

Soil composition: Chalk-limestone 

Vineyard altitude: 425 m

Irrigation: No

Green harvest: No

Harvest date: October 20th

Type of harvest: Manual in 12kg crates

WINEMAKING

Destemmed: Yes

Grapes pressing: Very soft

Prefermentative maceration: 3 days 

Fermentation: Spontaneous and controlled 

in 600 kilos French oak cask 

Barrel ageing: 17 months

Racking: Every six months by gravity

Type of oak: New French Oak 200%

Filtered: No

CURIOSITY

Historia de Santalba represents the culmination of Santiago Ijalba's career. After an entire life making high-quality wines, Santiago closes the loop with this unique cuvee. 

TASTING NOTES 

Visual

Very intense, dark and deep. Impenetrable and dense.

Aromas

Many layers make this wine complex and mysterious. Excellent oak and the finest spices. Black fruits with fresh spices, cocoa, tobacco, and violets in the background. Mineral notes. Spicy hints of cinnamon and black pepper from the ageing. The oak is very well integrated, which displays the high quality of the selected wood. 

Taste

Mouth-filling, volume and full-bodied with firm tannins of great elegance and quality. Excellent acidity makes a perfect balance. Full of flavour and broad-ranging reminders of fruit, cocoa, minerals and spices in the mouth aromas. A long, full, elegant aftertaste. 

Serving suggestions

 Good with grilled meat, Portobello mushrooms, braised lamb, cheeks in wine, fried foie gras, sirloin in pepper sauce, red meats, beans and pulses, mature and semi-mature cheese, game in red wine, steak tartare and so on. Temperature of consumption: 17oC

Storage

Store this wine in a cool, ventilated place where the temperature is relatively constant. Keep the bottles on their side so the wine is always in contact with the cork.