PIRatas del ebro - rioja ALAVESA

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LAND & FARMING
LOCATION:   
RIOJA ALAVESA -     
(Basque Part of Rioja)
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ALTITUDE:   
1,800 to 2,200 feet

SOIL: 
Chalky , clay-limestone 

CLIMATE:  
Cantabrian  with Atlantic Fog

FARMING:
Sustainable and Organic
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VINEYARDS : 
Sourced from over 300 parcels villages of Villabuena de Alava, Leza, SAmaniego, Laguardia, Navaridas + Baños del Ebro​
ESTABLISHED:
2018
WINEMAKER:
​Tao Platon

PIRATAS DEL EBRO - is an homage to early Phoenician wine merchants,
who travelled up the Ebro River from the Mediterranean
​and planted the first vines in the Valley of Rioja. 
Phoenician silver coin circa 400 BC
Melkart protector of Tyre (southern Lebanon today) riding a Pterohippocampos.
Cadiz in Spain was a colony of the city state of Tyre from 1,100 to 220 BC  
"Rioja Alavesa, the Basque part of Rioja - sandwiched between the
Ebro River and the chalky foothills of the Sierra Cantabria - 
​has some of the best Terroir in the world"
THE WINE

chatxo rioja

100% Tempranillo
​(click for Tech sheet)
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