2022 Tentenublo Wines Custero

Custero is the new wine from Roberto Oliván (Tentenublo) that he made together with his wife Leyre Ruiz in the style of the classic Riojas. An organic red made with Garnacha, Tempranillo, Viura, Malvasía, Calagraño, Garnacha Gris, Graciano, Monastrell and Malvasía La Rioja. Fermented in open barrels and matured in second year oak and concrete tanks.

The Custero comes from its own small single vineyard located in Viñaspre (Rioja Alavesa) where vineyards are grown with minimal intervention. The region clearly has influences from the Atlantic climate, characterized by lots of rain in summer and spring. Tertiary soils, eroded slopes of limestone loam and red sandstone loam landings. The harvest is completely manual and involves spontaneous fermentation of all varieties in an open barrel with whole bunches, i.e. with the yeasts on the grape (so no yeasts are even added). The result is an authentic red Roja where the fruit predominates. Surprisingly nice acidity, juicy with mainly red fruit. This is certainly a wine that will improve even further with a few years of bottle maturation and is unprecedentedly good in terms of price/quality, but supply is very limited because only 5,532 bottles were produced.

In some cases, the wines receive a kind of WAX seal instead of a regular capsule. This has no further purpose and has the disadvantage that it hardens quite quickly and pieces can easily crumble (spontaneously, during transport, etc.). This has no influence on the quality of the wine. We cannot provide any further guarantee for this.