Honorio Rubio, Rioja Blanco Macerado, 2020 SO092525 Schonleber Historic Saint-Emilion at its peak

Historic Saint-Emilion at its peak

Magnum format slows the evolution — this is a wine you can confidently rest for a decade or more

but don't mistake accessibility for simplicity

George Brocard founded the domaine in 1932

Now with a decade of age

Honorio Rubio, Rioja Blanco Macerado, 2020 SO092525 Schonleber Historic Saint-Emilion at its peakRioja is not where most people go hunting for skin contact wine. Bodega 220 Cantaras, up in the high village of Cordovin, makes one anyway: Viura fermented and then left in contact with its skins for an extended maceration, reported at up to about twelve months, bottled with only a light filtration. The technique is borrowed from Georgia and the eastern Mediterranean, and applied here to Rioja's workhorse white grape it turns Viura from something