El Vino Prodigo Sensoriales Rioja 2023
El Vino Prodigo Sensoriales Rioja 2023
Where: Rioja, Spain
Grapes: Tempranillo
Body: medium/full
Category: Red Wine
Jam, blackberry bramble, earthiness and coffee come together in this deliciously flavorful and aromatic wine.
Pair it with a burger.
Winemaking: Carbonic maceration with natural yeast in open-top concrete vats. Aged in the concrete vats for 3 months for gravity-driven fining and settling then racked and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Placeres Sensoriales is the entry level wine and it harkens back to a time before the Bordelais came to Rioja when wines were simply made in stone vats having both a standard fermentation and some carbonic fermentation.
organic // native yeasts // unfined + unfiltered
2023 // 750ml
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ABOUT THE WINEMAKER
Maître de Chai translates to cellar keeper, or the person responsible for the development and aging of wine, and, by extension, the person who manages the winery. Established in 2012, Maître de Chai — also known as MDC — is the personal project of Marty Winters and Alex Pitts who met while working at Cyprus restaurant in Sonoma. They have worked in some of California’s top kitchens — including Quince, and the French Laundry.
As with many younger winemakers in California, MDC does not own vineyards, but Alex and Marty do have close relationships with all the growers they work with and in some cases are able to farm the vineyards themselves. Their winemaking is hands-off: nothing added, nothing taken away (Alex is the assistant winemaker at Scholium Project). All fermentations are carried out by natural yeasts, sulfur is kept to a minimum, most wines are bottled without fining or filtering. Together they look to make wines of high quality in a way that best showcases the sense of place where the grapes are grown and the personality of the vineyard.