Rioja 'Hebabe' Graciano Bodegas Bohedal 2017

Bodegas Bohedal 'Hebabe' Graciano is a limited edition, 100% Graciano made from a plot of vines in a small 70-year-old vineyard in Rioja Alta. This is a more modern style of Rioja, aged only in French oak which has luscious and inky fruit flavours, dark red cherry, blackcurrant and a deep dark colour profile. The palate is complex with attractive and flashy oak notes of liquorice, spice, toasted oak and lifted sweeter fruit notes of damson along with a saline minerality. Delicious stuff indeed!

Bodegas Bohedal is a small family winery based in Cuzcurrita del Río Tirón, 10 km from Haro, in the heart of La Rioja Alta. The first vines were planted by great grandad Pepe in 1917 and today his great grandchildren, Leire and Elisa, aided by their father run this superb operation. There is no delusion of grandeur at Bohedal despite the wines receiving fantastic reviews and awards. This is a family operation and there is a belief that their wines are meant to be drunk, enjoyed and loved at any time.

On top of the traditional styles of Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva they also produce a superb white which is aged in a mixture of French, American and Romanian oak. It is a magical wine in a quite unique style. To embrace modern times, they have also started bottling Graciano, Tempranillo and Garnacha from their top vineyards into single vineyard wines which express the grape varieties superbly.