Navajas Rioja Blanco Sin Godello

Navajas Rioja Blanco Sin GodelloThe Rioja Blanco Sin from Bodegas Navajas is fresh and dry with notes of white flowers, lemon and lime. This is a terrific example of clean, unoaked white Rioja. Navajas is a family run winery in Navarette, Rioja. Antonio Navajas built the original Bodegas in 1983 and a few years ago Antonio junior built a new state of the art winery. It is Antonio junior who now makes the wines and he has built up a well deserved reputation based on his clean, fruity

giving rise to elegant

black cherries and blackberries

and a mandatory Bin 389 'sweet' core

with notes of blackberries

the remarkable thickness in attack goes perfectly with the fleshy and crunchy fruit of the middle of the mouth

Green apples

tropical fruit characters

generosity of spirit and the sharing of good food

The individual wines are matured separately in oak vats for between four and five years and are then blended together shortly before bottling to give balance and character

500 vines are planted per hectare in the guyot system

and an average annual rainfall of 280 mm (11 in) in El Cepillo and 300 mm (11

where it was aged for about six months