Miguel Merino, Rioja La Insula 2023

La Ínsula is a tiny little spot planted with Garnacha before th Phylloxera attack of the end of the 19th Century that we have started to work very recently. Here we find ungrafted vines on a sand bank beside the River Ebro and covering just above 1,000 square metres. This sandy soil prevented the vines from becoming affected by philloxera.

Aromas of ginger, clove and rose petal lead you into a palate that's elegant, refined and subtly wooded, all pomegranate and wild strawberry and graceful tannins. A vineyard that coped with the heat of 2022.