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Red dry
Yjar Rioja DOCa 2020 is a premium Spanish red wine from the prestigious Rioja DOCa region. This is the first project from the famous Telmo Rodríguez personal vineyard, which aims to revive the historic Remelluri farm and present the world with a terroir-inspired, authentic wine. Limited edition. Famous winemaker: Telmo Rodríguez is one of the most famous winemakers in Spain.
Yjar 2020 is an elegant and structurally complex wine. The aroma is dominated by dark berries, cherries, herbs, soft spices and mineral tones. The taste is rich, yet elegant, with balanced acidity and silky tannins. The wine is aged for 14 months in French oak barrels.
Serve at 16 - 18 °C. Goes well with red meat, mature cheese, mushroom dishes or even delicate stews.
The minerality offers a thin gauze that veils the notes of chalk, seashells, violets, white pepper, flowers and red and blue berries. Touches of graphite, spices and grapefruit zest as well. The tannins are dusty and abundant, melding into the extremely long, mineral finish. Transparent, pure and stony! Pristine and understated, yet complex and persistent. This is a chalky wine. 12,652 bottles. Drink from 2025, but you can keep this for 20 plus years.
Telmo Rodríguez, alongside his long-standing partner Pablo Eguzkiza, are more than just winemakers; they are the restorers of Spain’s oenological heritage. Since the project’s inception in 1994 with a single plot in Navarra, their Compañía de Vinos has evolved into a fundamental movement dedicated to rehabilitating abandoned, historic vineyards. In contrast to the proponents of industrial viticulture, Telmo focuses on autochthonous grape varieties and their primal expression, today managing over 80 hectares divided into 355 small plots across the country—from Málaga to Valdeorras.
The axis of Telmo Rodríguez’s philosophy is terroir hunting. Rather than creating a standardized "house style," he allows the local geology and microclimate to speak. His work with old bush vines (vignoble en gobelet) across various appellations reveals a dramatic mosaic of soils: from the granite outcrops of Galicia to the limestone plateaus of the Rioja region. Each wine serves as a portrait of a specific village or valley, where biodiversity within the vineyard is regarded as an essential condition for quality.
The production process maintains a strict distance from modern technological solutions. Only indigenous yeasts are used, and the aging strategy is selected individually to emphasize the purity of the grape rather than the influence of the oak itself. Often, large-capacity neutral oak casks or concrete vats are employed to preserve the desired structure and mineral character of the wine. This is an intellectual approach to winemaking, where technique serves as a tool to highlight the 43 different varieties that Telmo and Pablo have returned to the Spanish wine map.
