Emilio Valerio Amburza

Viñas de Amburza is a genteel and very gentlemanly wine. It likes to take its time. Just as nature does. It has been made following biodynamic methods and, like most of these wines, requires a period of time, a good maturation in bottle and some minutes... a generous few... in the glass, where it will open up impressively.

We have here a pure Cabernet with a distinctive terroir character; a serious, fresh, balsamic, mineral wine, clearly-defined too by an earthy finish. It is a refined Cabernet, and one influenced by the Atlantic. A deep purplish colour in the glass, with typical Cabernet aromas but different from those which we customarily come across in Bordeaux wines, without the leather, just clean, fruit aromas, with hints of pepper, balsamic and aromatic herb notes, some subtle wafts of incense, bakery undertones and some damp touches which are surely due to the climate; an undeniably complex nose, so decanting is required but opening up doesn't take long. On the palate, its attack is dense, intense, still somewhat compact, with plenty of ripe fruit and a dry spicy background similar to that discerned on the nose.