Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto 2022 castello-della-sala-estate The fruit for their wines

The fruit for their wines are loud and dominating…

The Alessandria "brothers" have been farming grapes and making Barolo in the ancient village of Verduno since the 1800's

Wine making and production has remained traditional with the use of large wooden foudres during ageing

Mountain wine' - grown 900 metres up on very steep

Bodegas Exopto Rioja Horizonte de Exopto 2022 castello-della-sala-estate The fruit for their winesExoptos villages level wine is a blend of 80% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha and 10% Graciano drawn from a dozen old vine plots entirely in the western Sonsierra zone (per Villar and Gil, 2019) in the lee of the Sierra Cantabria ranges. Previously based solely on balos vines, from 2020 onwards, the wine includes fruit from the old vines of Los Pozos and El Sacramento in San Vicente, in addition to grapes (20% in 2021) from a vineyard in Baos de Ebro