Contino Rosado
With Contino Rosado, we are striving for a rosé with ageing potential while moving away from the conventional style: the challenge is to create a great rosé with the soul of red wine.
The Contino rosé is produced by bleeding three grape varieties: Mazuelo (1 x 500 L), Graciano (2 x 500 L) and Garnacha (2 x 500 L). After a few hours in their respective wooden tubs, the grapes are bled into individual 500-litre barrels, where alcoholic fermentation takes place. After alcoholic fermentation, the varieties are blended before being aged together in barrels for nine months until bottling.
SCORE
92pts
91pts
DATA SHEET
Year
2021 Grape Variety
50% garnacha25% graciano
25% mazuelo
“Contino, the first "chateau" in Rioja, was first produced in 1973. Its wines are produced exclusively from the vineyards situated on its 62-hectare estate. The Contino vineyard surrounds an old manor house built on a meander of the Ebro River in Laserna, a small village in the municipality of Laguardia in the Rioja Alavesa region”
DESCUBRE MÁS
Contino Mazuelo
“Contino Don Vicente is the expression of one of our precious varieties at Finca San Rafael, Mazuelo. Through a meticulous viticulture, the vines offers us each year the freshness, acidity and complexity that characterize Contino wines. This time we have decided to capture those characteristics into a single variety wine; Mazuelo. Contino Mazuelo Don Vicente breaks with the schemes of a forgotten variety, although including a common factor that characterizes the wine, the seriousness of Contino”