Kuusu

Winery: Oxer Bastegieta
Region: Rioja

Red Wine

92% Tinta de Toro, 8% Albillo Mayor.

Production
903 bottles

Winemaking
This wine is produced with grapes coming from Toro area and is made in Rioja. Fermentation takes place in open wooden vat, foudre and concrete egg, using indigenous yeasts. The wine ages for approximately 13 months in foudre.

Character
Kuusu is a very powerful wine. Punchy freshness and slightly chalky textured tannins. Flavours of black currant, black cherry, rose petal, dark chocolate and liquorice. Chili spiciness and savoury notes. All leading to a long concentrated finish.

Alcohol: 14%

What’s in a name Kuusu is the Basque name for a scarecrow, aka the Basque man in Toro, that chases away bad spirits. The back label cites John Keats: “The poetry of the Earth is never dead.” Poetry is everywhere, in the soil, in us, in the wine, in the sky.