There are certain historic wines from Rioja that allude to Burgundy with their texture and aromatics. Lopez de Heredia's "Vina Bosconia" is the most famous example of this and in some ways this wine also takes its cue from that wine. It has the kind of nuance and multi-dimensional red-fruited aromatics that Pinot is famous for, but delivers them with slightly more density, cigar-box range aromas, spice and texturized, powerful tannin.  

Instead the wine is cloud like in texture, almost weightless, a vehicle for delivering aromas in the most pleasing way.

This is the third vintage of this blend of adjacent parcels of Syrah and Grenache. The two parcels are fermented separately, whole cluster, with extended macerations before aging together in older, thick staved barrels of various sizes. There was no racking and the wine aged on the lees before being bottled by gravity after over two years in wood.