Tim Atkin 94
Wine Advocate/Parker 91
Stephen Tanzer 94
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Bodegas Luis Alegre
Bodegas Luis Alegre was born in 1968 the passion of a family wine. From its origin, have made their philosophy of the highest quality. Working with a firm objective: make wines with personality. For this they combine evolution and tradition, optimizing and even reinventing what already exists, always respecting the foundations of tradition and wine heritage.
Sheltered by the Sierra de Cantabria, in Rioja Alavesa, our vineyards formed by limestone soils with sandy inserts and saline and ferric influences give our wines a high quality.
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Luis Alegre white wine Viura About Lías 2018
Selection of grapes of viura from plots of vineyards of between 40 and 60 years old.Gentle pressing, to avoid breakage of seeds.Fermentation with controlled temperature (7-9 days).Subsequent work on the lees (inactive yeasts): soft results on these to break their cell walls to let flow the wine sugars and proteins that contain.Goal: generate a wine that is more structured and complex aromatically.Clarification and filtration lightweight.
Red wine – Luis Alegre Crianza Magnum
Luis Alegre Crianza It born from grapes from vineyards of an average age of 30 years old. These are found on farms of soil clay and limestone to about 500 meters of altitude.Following a process of manual harvest, the beans macerated and fermented for about 15 days. Once the malolactic fermentation, Luis Alegre Crianza is transferred into American oak barrels and French.In the same is made the foster, that continues for about 14 months. The barrels are new and second -, third and fourth year. The 80% of these are of american oak and 20% remaining French oak.Luis Alegre Crianza finally rests a year in bottle before release for sale.Red wine Luis Alegre – Finca La Reñana Special Selection Magnum 2014
GREAT WINES FROM SMALL ESTATESGrapes from the vineyard Finca La Reñana. Their limestone soils provide elegance, high minerality and depth with a high potential to save.Vintage manual boxes 15 kg.Selection table.Raised during 16 months in new oak barrels from the best forests of France with a touch of american oak, that provides structure and aromatic complexity.Rests in bottle a minimum of 18 months.AcknowledgementsGuia Vinos Gourmets 2019: 95 pointsPeñín 91Tim Atkin 90Wine Advocate/Parker 90Jancis Robinson 16.5Gourmets guide 95Red wine Luis Alegre – Pontac of Portiles 2010 / 2012
GREAT WINES FROM SMALL ESTATESGrapes from the vineyard of Finca Payment of Portiles, for almost a century and 1,5 has.Vines planted on a gentle slope, in the best years give a maximum of 4 barrels.Nose boxes 15 kg and strict selection tables.Fermented in 8 bocoyes French oak 600 kg capacity, with individualised temperature control to set the intense aromas that generates this vineyard. Of these eight are selected the two best per vintage and the wine passes to rest.AcknowledgementsProensa 96Tim Atkin 92Wine Advocate/Parker 93Jancis Robinson 17Guide Gourmet 97Red wine Luis Alegre – Pontac 2014
GREAT WINES FROM SMALL ESTATESGrape of the Estate Portiles, planted in 1920. Soil limestone with influence iron, unusual in the area, that brings color, structure, deep aromas and atypical.Vintage manual boxes 15 kg.Selection table.Fermentation in a vat of small capacity.Raised during 21 months in new barrels of French of great quality, made to the “letter” for our winery.Slight clarification, and rest on rack until it reaches its fullness.AcknowledgementsGuide Proensa 2019 : 97 pointsPeñín 92Proensa 98Wine Enthusiast 91Jancis Robinson 17Guide Gourmet 94Finca Rhenish Special Selection Tinto Luis Alegre 2014/2015
GREAT WINES FROM SMALL ESTATESGrapes from the vineyard Finca La Reñana. Their limestone soils provide elegance, high minerality and depth with a high potential to save.Vintage manual boxes 15 kg.Selection table.Raised during 16 months in new oak barrels from the best forests of France with a touch of american oak, that provides structure and aromatic complexity.Rests in bottle a minimum of 18 months.AcknowledgementsGuia Vinos Gourmets 2019: 95 pointsPeñín 91Tim Atkin 90Wine Advocate/Parker 90Jancis Robinson 16.5Gourmets guide 95Red wine Luis Alegre – Plot no. 5 2016
GREAT WINES FROM SMALL ESTATESGrape of the Estate, Plot No. 5, located next to a salt water lagoon, so you have a soil and micro-climate that produces grapes with great personality.Vineyard with age more than 45 years and yields limited to 4.500 kg/ha.Nose boxes 15 kg.Selection table.The grapes is fermented and macerated in tanks conical stainless steel low-capacity (7.000kg) during 20 days.Raised in new barrels (French and american) during 14 months.Remains in the rack until its perfect maturity.AcknowledgementsGuide Gourmet 2018 94Stephen Tanzen 91Wine Enthusiast 92White wine Luis Alegre – Finca La Reñana
GREAT WINES FROM SMALL ESTATESElaborated with grapes from Vineyards of Finca La Reñana, of 85 years old, located in the foothills of the Sierra Cantabria, to 650 m. with low returns (3.500 kg/ha) that allows slow ripening and slow.Vineyard Finca La Reñana, of 85 years old, located in the foothills of the Sierra Cantabria, to 650 m. with low returns (3.500 kg/ha) that allows slow ripening and slow.Vintage manual boxes 15 kg.Selection table.fermented barrels 7-8 months on its own fine lees.Battonage newspapers to extract proteins and sugars, and that they flow the wine.Special oak forest atypical from the Bertranges.AcknowledgementsPeñín: 91 Tim Atkin 94 Wine Advocate/Parker 91 Stephen Tanzer 94Red wine – Luis Alegre Reservation 2015
Elaborated with grapes from vineyards with an average age of 40 years belonging to the winery and controlled exclusively by the Technical Team of Bodegas Luis Alegre.Fermented and macerated with the skins during 25 days in tinos stainless steel low-capacity (12.000 Kg.).Happens to French oak barrels and american (50% approx).In this wine we look for the balance between the softness and elegance of the Parenting and the Power and structure of wine “Selected grapes” of this winery.Luis Alegre Crianza red wine 2016
Luis Alegre Crianza It born from grapes from vineyards of an average age of 30 years old. These are found on farms of soil clay and limestone to about 500 meters of altitude.Following a process of manual harvest, the beans macerated and fermented for about 15 days. Once the malolactic fermentation, Luis Alegre Crianza is transferred into American oak barrels and French.In the same is made the foster, that continues for about 14 months. The barrels are new and second -, third and fourth year. The 80% of these are of american oak and 20% remaining French oak.Luis Alegre Crianza finally rests a year in bottle before release for sale.Red wine Luis Alegre – KODEN 2018
Concept: techniques of making high range wines in grapes from young vineyards.Vineyards 20-25 years old.Parenting 9 months in new oak barrelsAcknowledgements Peñín 90Luis Alegre Roughing red wine carbonic maceration 2018
With a limited production of 3.000 bottles, Luis Alegre Roughing 2017 it is elaborated with grapes from vineyards of 60 years of age. Once harvested manually, is encuban whole bunches and these undergo the technique of the carbonic maceration. After pressing, for obtaining of the must-wine, it is carried out a controlled fermentation between 16 and 17 degrees celsius during 4 the 5 additional days.After a process of stabilization between 4 and 5 weeks, the wine rests for a single day in French oak barrels for, below, proceed to grinding and bottling.Luis Alegre red wine carbonic maceration
Selection of grapes of viura from vineyards 35 years old.Vintage manual.Vatting of bunches with stems in stainless steel tanks and a “bed” of white wine to not “blow out” the first bunches.4-5 days of carbonic maceration, pressing and end of fermentation.AcknowledgementsGuide Gourmet 92Success: healthy, ripe grapes since there is no breeding to “cover up” defects.Always among the best of Spain in the two contests, the most prestigious wines youngRosé wine Luis Alegre – Luis Alegre Rosé 2019
Produced by direct pressing of grapes Tempranillo and Viura.Using pressure-controlled is extracted from the flower.To optimize primary aromas and high expressiveness comes at the sacrifice of a low yield (mash 60%).Fermentation constant at a temperature of 16º.