Olivier Riviere Rioja Rayos Uva 2021 haut medoc fresh-picked cranberries

fresh-picked cranberries

While Ribeira del Duero is rightly famous for brooding

The transition proved seamless

unfiltered with a small addition of SO2

Olivier Riviere Rioja Rayos Uva 2021 haut medoc fresh-picked cranberriesRioja as it is known today owes much to the French. During the slow rolling invasion of Phylloxera through Europes vineyards, there was a period in the late 19th century when the louse had not yet crossed the Pyrenees. Bordeaux winemakers, their livelihoods in tatters, fled across the mountains to Rioja, bringing Bordeauxs technical and commercial knowhow to a region of small farms and family sized bodegas. Olivier Rivire has come a century or so