2010 | Bodegas Felix Callejo | Selección de Viñedos de la Familia

This wine has great life and boldness. It evokes the passion for the Tempanillo grape, the same passion our grandfather passed on to our father, Félix Callejo, and which he in turn transmits to us each day. This wine offers aromas of black fruit, violets, cracked pepper and tarragon. It is dense and layered, with a soft velvet texture and firm, ripe tannins. A tremendous wine.

Reviews:

• James Suckling: Big black fruit and serious tannins, but also a nice acidity that helps lift the wine to a bold, spicy finish.
• Wine Advocate: The 2010 Vinedos de la Familia is 100% Tempranillo from 60-year-old vineyards aged for 15 months in new French oak barrels. It feels a bit wild, with notes of reduction, under which there are aromas of black fruit, wet slate, graphite and peat, with some notes of dark chocolate and coffee developing with time. The palate is full-bodied, with plenty of tannins and good fruit but feels a bit aggressive. It might improve with time in bottle.

Producer Information

A life project started by Félix and Pilar in 1969. Bodegas Félix Callejo located in the municipality of Sotillo de la Ribera (Burgos), a town with less than 500 inhabitants. After 47 years and now in its second generation, it confirms the vision of the area's potential to produce quality wines that Félix Callejo started between vineyards, to launch his first harvest 20 years later in 1989. Félix Callejo took over the reins of the business only 16 years old and he always had the dream of making his own wine. Both his grandfather Faustino and his father Félix owned a vineyard, in addition to being "wine brokers", a kind of commercial agent, in charge of selling the batches of wine made in Sotillo.With his bottle under his arm, he was a pioneer in introducing Ribera del Duero wines to countries where there was hardly any wine culture. The soils where its vineyards are located range from limestone in the upper parts (930 meters above sea level), to clay-loam, sandy and pebble as you descend through the profile, with limestone areas in upper parts of slopes. . All this variety of soils, where Tinta Fina or Tempranillo is expressed in a different way, gives its wines a great wealth of nuances .

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