Oxer Bastegieta Tartalo 2022

What’s in a Name: Its name comes from a Cyclops from Basque mythology, coming from the 'old world', a spiritual, dream world, with which Oxer wants to evoke that small spiritual world that has been lost today. The label shows Tartalo defiantly emerging from the lake as Excalibur, leering at the flock of sheep that will be his food...

Varieties: 87% Tempranillo, 10% Viura and 3% Graciano

Production: 900 bottles of 0,75 cl.

Vineyard
0.7 ha planted in 1920 in the town of Elvillar (Rioja Alavesa) at an altitude of 600 meters in the Barranco de San Julián, on very poor calcareous soils with a yield of 3,000 kg per hectare.

Winemaking
Alcoholic fermentation with native yeasts in 1.000L French oak vats an 500 litre French oak barrels