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The Society's Rioja Crianza 2019
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Full-bodied
- Tempranillo
- 75cl
- Now to 2025
- 14% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, diam no capsule
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- 100ml of this wine contains 77 kcal
- The bottle contains 10.5 units of alcohol
- A 125ml glass of this wine contains 96 kcal and 1.8 units of alcohol
The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend adults do not regularly drink more than 14 units per week. For information and support on responsible drinking please see www.drinkaware.co.uk. For more information about how calories in wine are measured, click here.
Bodegas Cosme Palacio
Bodegas Palacio is located in the heart of the Rioja Alavesa, at the bottom of the road leading up to Laguardia, a spectacular fortified hilltop village set against the backdrop of the Sierra Cantabria. The original stone-built bodega, now a small hotel, was first superseded by a rather four-square winery, but was replaced with a new, modern winery in 2014.
Palacio was founded in 1894 by Don Cosme de Palacio, an entrepreneur from Bilbao, one of the pioneers of winemaking in the region who made many positive changes, including the introduction of ageing in oak barrels. After a period under French ownership in the 1980s, during which Bordeaux guru Michel Rolland consulted here, Palacio was acquired in the 1990s by Hijos de Antonio Barcelo, one of Spain’s largest winemaking conglomerates, itself part of the giant Acciona group. Today the business is back in the hands of the Entrecanales Domecq family and has been renamed Entrecanales Domecq e Hijos.
This is an unusual enterprise in many respects. It buys in most of its fruit from a long-established network of contract growers, effectively controlling 255ha of vineyards, all in the Alavesa. It concentrates almost exclusively on tempranillo and viura, though in the new alta expresión white, Cosme 1894, there is a touch of malvasia. The winery has a 13,000 barrel capacity and exports a third of its production. A number of distinctly different bottlings reflect the bodega’s historical French bias, including the...
BBC Good Food
Read moreWhile we love all the exciting things happening in the region, sometimes we can’t get enough of the traditional wines, aged long in American oak. This own label wine produced by Bodegas Cosme Palacio is...
The Daily Telegraph
A classy red that will please a lot of people. It’s made by Cosme de Palacio and tastes of mellow strawberries with spicy oak.