Viña Pomal Gran Reserva
Top Seller
P136
Viña Pomal Gran Reserva is a serious and high quality wine that combines the best of La Rioja. It represents the great classic reserve of La Rioja, faithful to its origins for more than a century.
It only occurs in exceptional vintages and with a limited quantity of bottles.
Awards
vintage 2014
2021
Great Gold Bacchus
Bacchus
2021
92 points
Guía Peñín
2021
94 points
James Suckling
2021
Master Medal
The Drinks Business - Autumn Tasting
2021
94 points
Top 100 Spanish wines James Suckling
2021
Master Medal
The Drinks Business - Rioja Masters
2022
95 points
Guía Gourmets
2022
93 points
Guía de los 365 días (Vivir el Vino)
2022
Gold Medal
Mundus Vini Spring Tasting
A perfect pairing with vegetable and rice dishes as well as pulse stews. It also goes well with meat or vegetable rice dishes, moderately strong cheeses, duck and oily fish.
View
Garnet and cherry hues introduce this bright Great Reserve with light orange reflections on the rim.
Nose
The unique vinification process of this Great Reserve provides a complex, elegant nose with notes of liquorice and redfruit, typical of the Tempranillo, along with hints of spices subtly added by the Graciano. During bottle ageing, all of this is assembled with toasty and balsamic aromas (vanilla, pepper, tobacco) contributed by the barrels.
Palate
As the wine is aired in the glass, it discloses its full range of nuances and complex aromas. In the mouth, it reflects our surroundings, with a mild entry and a sense of elegance and balance, ending in long persistence, denoting the craft of barrel ageing and the assemblage provided by a long stay in the bottle.
Varieties and Analysis
Yes
Contains sulfites14.2%
Alcohol volume (%)D.O.Ca. Rioja
Designation of OriginTempranillo
Variety/CoupageRed wine
ProductNo
Suitable for vegansP136
The Winery
Founded in 1901 in the town of Haro’s legendary Station Quarter, Bodegas Bilbaínas is the longest-standing bottling winery in Rioja. It also has the most extensive underground cellars in the region and a greater area of vineyards than any other winery in the town: 250 hectares of high quality vines, which supply the winery with its own grapes, ensuring that they can be processed quickly without losing their qualities. Viña Pomal is its flagship brand, which embodies the Rioja Alta's best winemaking tradition. These are exceptional wines that have remained faithful to the classic style of authentic Rioja from the outset.
Elaboration - Vinification
Viña Pomal Gran Reserva is made following traditional vinification methods.
Viña Pomal Gran Reserva is made following traditional vinification methods.
The grapes are selected manually in our vineyards. At the winery, they are destemmed and crushed and then undergo moderately long maceration in tanks. After alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, the wines are racked and aged in 225 litres Bordeaux barrels, traditionally American oak. After ageing in barrels for one year, the wine is racked back to tanks. This is when the blend for the Great Reserve is determined, and 10% Graciano, a minority Rioja variety, is added to the Tempranillo. The wine is fined with egg whitesand put in barrels again for another year to complete its two years’ ageing in oak.
After its stay in barrels, the wine spends a further year in oak vats, where the natural cleaning and assembly process concludes. Three years’ ageing in the bottle complete the vinification of these unique Rioja wines.
Vineyard - Viticulture
Our vineyards are located in the vicinity of the winery, in the municipality of Haro.
Our vineyards are located in the vicinity of the winery, in the municipality of Haro. 250 hectares make ours the largest property in the area, and our Reserve and Great Reserve are a true reflection of these soils. With an average vine age in excess of 25 years, we seek the utmost balance and a reflection of our terroir. We complement the Tempranillo with Graciano, which only matures in great vintages. Those are the vintages when we make our Great Reserve, as it is not made every year.
