Rioja

Hi, I'm Moira Rose, and if you love fruit wine as much as I do, then you'll appreciate the craftsmanship and quality of a local vintner.

who brings the muskmelon goodness to his oak chardonnay and the dazzling peach crawl to his Riesling Rioja.

Come taste the difference good fruit can make in your wine.

You'll remember the experience and you'll remember the name.

Wow.

So this is a Rioja Denominación de Origen Calificada.

I think it's Spanish.

Rosado 2024.

Let's see what Sammy

knows.

The back of Latitude 42 says, Latitude 42 is a many-generation family-owned winery located in the high mountain slopes of the easternmost part of Rioja.

The family is wholeheartedly dedicated to sustainability and biodiversity.

I do educational staff trainings for the, uh, staff as well.

Um, you know, I use my, my resources from when I went to do the Tripa de la Brigada to do, you know, PowerPoint slides for my staff, being that, you know, I feel like most people, if you're going to be working in a Basque or a Spanish influenced restaurant, you have a basic understanding of at least maybe Rioja.

So kind of diving deeper into Ribera del Duero, Valdeorras, um, Sherry, kind of doing more deep dives into things that are a little bit harder for just the normal server working in a, a place like that is able to handle, and breaking it down in a more approachable way.

You know, we just did a wine dinner for, uh, Alberto Ortiz that was really fun with my boss, uh, Nick Yanez.

A friend's dinner party, Lena always vivid, eyes set deep under thick brows brought up Meyer and the artist in residence.

They're dynamite together, huh? Caught them after hours slicing through a bottle of Rioja and critiquing everyone's sketchbooks.

Weird, right? Sorta intimate.

She said it with a laugh, but watched my reaction closely.

I also love a rich style of white wine with some meat dishes, especially sort of more maybe slow cooked aromatic meat dishes.

So one that stands out to me in particular is something like a rich oak aged white Rioja, with a sort of slow-cooked, maybe saffron-infused shoulder of lamb.

So

here, we don't have necessarily a big competition between flavours between the wine and the recipe because white Rioja is big, it's bold, it's had oak ageing, so it's got texture as well.

And then when you slow-cook something like lamb, it has a much more sort of subtle and softer texture.

So again, you know, there's not a competition in flavours.

Then we move into the High Altitude Iberian Grapes.

He draws a comparison between the high plateaus of Texas and Rioja, where altitude and wind help shape these wines.

There he includes the C.L. Buteau 21 Farmhouse Vineyards Tempranillo from the Texas High Plains and the Signor Vineyards 2020 Estate Torriga Nacional grown in the Texas Hill Country.

Then it's on to Italy.