Casa La Rad Red

The Casa la Rad wines are produced from the oldest vines on the the Casa la Rad estate in Rioja Baja. The large, family-owned estate is located in the northern foothills of the Valle de Ocón, and encompasses 2,000 acres; mostly native oak forest, with 272 acres of vineyards, and 37 acres of olive groves. The remainder of the estate is dedicated to growing almonds and cereal crops. They seek a balance between their activity and the local environment so as to sustain or improve its vitality and biodiversity. It can be served with stews, game meat and cheese. It offers complex aromas of black cherries and currants with notes of black pepper, coffee beans, nutmeg, Indian spices and vanilla notes. Deep, concentrated and well balanced with sophisticated tanins, it also shows delicacy and freshness.

Winery: Bodegas Casa La Rad
Appellation: Rioja
Average age of vines: 35 years old
Farming Methods: Organic - Non Certified
Maturation: Aged for 14 months in new French oak
Soil: Sandy loam
Varietal: Tempranillo blend
Vineyard Orientation: 660-750 meters
Vineyard Size: 37 acres

Wine	Scores	Downloads	Reviews
Casa La Rad Red 2017	93 View from the Cellar “This is a single vineyard bottling from Casa La Rad, made from a cépages of forty percent each of tempranillo and garnacha, ten percent graciano and ten percent maturana. The wine is fermented in eight hundred liter oak vats and aged completely in new French Bordeaux casks for fourteen months prior to bottling. The wine comes in at fourteen percent in 2017 and delivers a beautifully refined bouquet of red and black raspberries, Rioja spice tones, a touch of cigar smoke, a superbly complex base of soil, nutskin and cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep. pure, full-bodied and youthful, with a plush core of fruit, excellent soil signature and grip, ripe, buried tannins and a long, complex and very well-balanced finish. This is a superb bottle in the making. 2029-2065. 92 Tim Atkin This stylishly packaged red marries mostly Tempranillo and Garnacha with 10% each of Maturana Tinta and Graciano and illustrates winemaker Marta Gallego’s skills as a blender. Grassy, textured and alluringly perfumed, it has scented French oak, good acidity and layers of cassis, raspberry and blackberry fruit. 2022-27	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet