Bodegas Bagordi Colsecha Tinto Rioja 2023

$21.00

Bagordi farms organically outside Andosilla, on the banks of the Ega and Ebro in Rioja Oriental. The family has grown vines there since the early eighteenth century. The bodega itself arrived in 1995. This is their young red: 85 percent Tempranillo with Garnacha and Graciano, hand picked, three months in oak, minimal sulphur. It drinks the way a house red should. Buy it by the case.

Cherry fruit on the nose tangled up with red and black currant. Spicier across the palate, liquorice and a balsamic note, a hint of oak sitting underneath.

Classic matches for a red like this: Grilled and roasted meats, hearty pastas, aged cheeses.

The Carcar family's link to vines around Andosilla is documented back to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Luis Manuel Carcar founded the bodega in 1995. Vineyards went organic in 1990, the first certified organic wine followed in 1998, and since 2008 they work only their own fruit.