Tempranillo

Navarra sits between Rioja and Bordeaux in both geography and grape mix, and Ars Nova draws on all of it in one blend.

The Yerri Valley is cool and high enough that Tempranillo holds its acidity, and Tandem keep this cuvee out of oak entirely so the fruit leads.

El Espino is the plot selection off Finca Áster's 87 hectares at Anguix, optically sorted and built for finesse rather than weight.

Áster is La Rioja Alta's Ribera del Duero estate, farming vines planted in 1990 at 780 metres in Anguix.

Resalte work only with Tempranillo, from eighty hectares of low-yielding vines around Peñafiel at the centre of Ribera del Duero.

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