Martinez Lacuesta Rioja Crianza 2003 Style_Rum Domaine Pavelot’s Les Vergelesses 1er

Domaine Pavelot’s Les Vergelesses 1er Cru sits at the southern edge of Pernand-Vergelesses

a charcuterie board with cornichons

Rocky mountain walls ring the plain

roughly 12-14 million years old

This is Sauvignon with restraint and a real sense of place

Martinez Lacuesta Rioja Crianza 2003 Style_Rum Domaine Pavelot’s Les Vergelesses 1erThe Land Bodegas Martnez Lacuesta sits in Haro, the historic wine capital of Rioja Alta, in the cool northwestern corner of the region where the river Ebro bends and the climate turns continental. This is the highest, coolest, most Atlantic influenced part of Rioja, and it is what gives the wines of Haro their freshness and their ability to age. The house draws Tempranillo and its traditional partners from vineyards on the right bank of the Ebro