Vino Tinto Amancio, Sierra Cantabria
Bodega Sierra Cantabria
Amancio Red Wine, Sierra Cantabria
75 cl bottle. Amancio 2018 is a wine produced under the DOCa Rioja designation by Sierra Cantabria wineries.
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Original Made in Spain 2025

Technical Sheet

Winery: Viñedos Sierra Cantabria
D.O.:D.O.Ca Rioja
Variety: 100% Tempranillo
Alcohol: 14.5 % vol.

Tasting note: This is a mature red wine with aromas of ripe fruit, blackberry, morello cherry, plum, raisins, with mineral and liqueur-like traces, and powerful toasted aromas. On the palate it is powerful and flavorful, with well-defined tannins, great length, minerality, and reminiscences of ripe fruit.

Serving temperature:

16º C

Harvest: Hand-harvested in crates. Rigorous selection in an exceptional vineyard with very low overall production, using exclusively those clusters that come closest to perfection in terms of structure, health, and ripeness, representing barely 8% to 10 % of all clusters.

Integrated, environmentally respectful viticulture, minimal intervention, perfect adaptation to the ‘terroir’, and no use of herbicides or systemic products, in harmony with nature’s biorhythms. Organic fertilization.

Winemaking: Manual destemming and rigorous berry-by-berry selection. Cold pre-fermentation maceration for 5 days. Fermented in 5-hectoliter French oak barrels and in 2 French oak vats of 10 hectoliters. Punched down twice daily during the first 6 days. Fermentation with native yeast selected from our own vineyards. Skin maceration: 23 days. Malolactic fermentation in new French oak barrel. Aging: 24 months in a new Bordeaux-style French oak barrel.

The Viñedos de Sierra Cantabria winery is owned by the Eguren family, a family with a great winemaking tradition spanning 5 generations in La Rioja, and also responsible for other renowned wineries such as Teso La Monja in the D.O. Toro.

Pairing: at Made in Spain Gourmet we recommend it with red meats in sauce, roasted white meats, roasted red meats, white meats in sauce, stews, beef, roast pork, and large game. It is also ideal with a fine board of well-aged sheep’s and goat’s cheeses. But it can also be enjoyed on its own, with a good book.

The Purity of the Terroir

Five generations of winegrowers rooted in San Vicente de la Sonsierra have woven a long history of partnership between man and vine, drawing out its finest virtues and making every effort to convey its expressiveness in unique wines.

Marcos Eguren, leading the winemaking work, and Miguel Eguren, managing the group as president, head a viticultural project in search of wines that evoke the vineyard, with great versatility and a distinctive personality. Wines that belong to the new classics: wines built to endure, combining fruit, power, and structure with elegance, freshness, and subtlety.

Sierra Cantabria, Viñedos Sierra Cantabria, Señorío de San Vicente, and Viñedos de Páganos make up their projects in the DOCa. Rioja, joined by their presence in the D.O. Toro with the Teso La Monja winery. The family and its wineries enjoy national and international prestige, and have earned distinctions and awards in both spheres.

Rioja Alavesa: the elite of La Rioja wines

Rioja Alavesa is classified as a subzone within the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin. It has 13,500 hectares of vineyards and several hundred wineries, resulting in an average annual production of around 40 million liters of wine.

The area produces especially red wines with specific general characteristics, such as a bright, vivid color, a fine aroma, a fruity flavor, and a pleasant palate. These features are due to the area’s clay-limestone soils, which are excellent for helping vines absorb the moisture they need. Their quality is also enhanced by the climate and the location of the vineyards, behind the Sierra de Toloño, which protects the vines from the cold northern winds and allows them to make better use of the warmth.

Red wines are the most representative wines of the region and are made from the Tempranillo varieties (around 79% of the total is produced from this grape), Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano.

Young wines, or wines from the current vintage, are mostly made using the traditional carbonic maceration method, in which whole clusters are fermented in a ‘lagar’ for seven to ten days. Once freed from skins and stems, they are transferred to vats where fermentation will finish.

Crianza, reserva, and gran reserva wines, meanwhile, are made using the Bordeaux method, or destemming process. This consists of crushing the grapes after removing the stems and incubating the must with the skins and pulp for seven days. After several fermentations, they are transferred to barrels for aging. The length of time spent in barrel and bottle is what distinguishes crianzas, reservas, and gran reservas.

Because rosé and white wines are increasingly appreciated both at home and abroad, winemakers and oenologists are working to produce quality wines of these varieties, in a commitment to reaching every market.

Bodega Sierra Cantabria

Since 1870, over five generations, the Eguren family has devoted itself to cultivating vineyards and producing and aging some of Rioja’s finest wines. Keeping knowledge and tradition alive, they have passed them down from parents to children, always adapting them to technological advances and to respect for the land and the vine. The family and its wineries enjoy national and international prestige, having received distinctions and awards in both arenas. Teso La Monja marked the beginning of a new era in Toro. The brothers Marcos and Miguel Eguren, of Sierra Cantabria, have spent years contributing to the transformation of this town in Zamora. They fell in love with Toro’s old pre-phylloxera vines and their ability to give rise to unique wines. The success behind these wines unfolded in several stages. Initially, the Eguren brothers acquired the Numanthia Termes winery, where they produced Termanthia, the wine that earned them 100 Parker points. In 2008 they sold this winery to Louis Vuitton Möet Hennessy (LVMH) in order to set out on their own path and seek new vineyards with very specific characteristics, also in the lands of Toro. These vineyards also have more gravel on the surface, face north, and have longer vegetative cycles. All of this is aimed at obtaining wines that convey balance and elegance while extracting the land’s full potential. These vineyards also have more gravel on the surface, face north, and have longer vegetative cycles. All of this is aimed at obtaining wines that convey balance and elegance, extracting the land’s full potential. Construction of the Teso La Monja winery, however, began before the sale of Numanthia Termes to LVMH. It was in 2006, on several hectares of associated vineyard. There stands a winery of sober architectural beauty, whose design perfectly combines the most contemporary vision for crafting great wines with the experience, history, and savoir-faire of the past. Modernity built on solid foundations. In this context, the wines Románico, Almirez, Victorino, Alabaster and Teso La Monja are produced. Wines that convey the essence of Tinta de Toro with subtlety and freshness, two hallmark attributes of all Eguren wines. Vines. Thus, Teso La Monja has 90 hectares of planted vineyard, mostly own-rooted and native, located in the towns of Valdefinjas, Toro and Villabuena. At Teso La Monja, sustainable agriculture is also practiced, with organic fertilization and meticulous work in the cellar. Traditional methods are combined with the most modern technology to extract the mineral nuances of privileged soils.";}i:1;a:3:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Zoltan Nagy’s Opinion";s:2:"id";s:19:"opinion-zoltan-nagy";s:7:"content";s:659:" blockquote “A small-production wine, penetrating and delicate” /blockquote strong Zoltan Nagy, /strong is a em Wine Connoisseur /em who introduces us to many little-known corners of the Spanish wine world that have yet to become widely known or discovered by the public. Zoltan Nagy is a wine writer, columnist in various digital media, and the personal brand of Romero and MadeinSpain in the world of wines. Member of the Spanish Association of Wine Journalists and Writers (AEPEV). He is also an expert in wine and gastronomy experiences in Spain for foreigners. In one sentence: he sells happiness through wine.
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