In the glass
Aroma: black cherry, cassis, mocha, violet, graphite
Palate: concentrated black fruit, velvet tannin, mineral, long savour
The estate's cult prestige red, made only from the shoulders of the best bunches and aged in new French oak; dense, polished and mineral with great longevity.
What it pairs with
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Venison loin
Dark game meets Trasnocho's concentrated cassis and graphite. -
Chuleton de buey a la brasa
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A char-grilled beef chop for the estate's icon. -
Aged hard cheese
Crystalline cheese sharpens the long mineral finish.
History
Trasnocho uses Fernando Remirez de Ganuza's signature method of selecting only the shoulders of each bunch, made in tiny quantities as the estate's icon.
- 1994 — First Trasnocho vintage using the shoulder-selection method
Facts
- Producer
- Remirez de Ganuza
- Grapes
- Tempranillo (90%), Graciano (10%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Around 20 months in new French oak
- ABV
- 14.5%
- Price
- EUR 90 to 160 at retail
- Drinking window
- 10 to 30 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1994
Scores
- Tim Atkin 95 (2016 vintage, reviewed 2022)