Honorio Rubio, Rioja Blanco Macerado, 2020 SO092525 Schonleber It is not flashy or

It is not flashy or showy

Courbes Raies

with gooseberry

and sweet vermouth—blended with precision and bottled for instant enjoyment

Honorio Rubio, Rioja Blanco Macerado, 2020 SO092525 Schonleber It is not flashy orRioja is not where most people go hunting for skin contact wine. Bodega 220 Cantaras, up in the high village of Cordovin, makes one anyway: Viura fermented and then left in contact with its skins for an extended maceration, reported at up to about twelve months, bottled with only a light filtration. The technique is borrowed from Georgia and the eastern Mediterranean, and applied here to Rioja's workhorse white grape it turns Viura from something