Tartalo
Winery: Oxer Bastegieta
Region: Rioja
Red Wine
87% Tempranillo, 10% Viura and 3% Graciano.
Production
1,537 bottles
Winemaking
Fermentation is carried out in open barrels using indigenous yeast. The malolactic fermentation takes place in French barriques and in a 47 mm thick Stockinger barrel of 600 liters. The wine remains in oak for 12 months of aging.
Character
Tartalo is an aged red wine with an expression of fruity aromas and spicy notes with a mineral background. In the mouth, it has perfect acidity and fluid tannins that give it exceptional elegance. It is a wine with a long finish and a great aging capacity.
Alcohol: 14.5%
What’s in a name
Tartalo comes from ancient Basque mythology. An old world Oxer likes to escape to and which he aims to express in his wines and in images. Tartalo is the name of an enormously strong one-eyed Basque giant. The quote on the back label is from the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch: “From my rotting body flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”