AMAREN 2005
This marks the tribute of a great wine producer to his mother, the masterpiece of Juan Luis Cañas, a selection of the Tempranillo grape from vineyards which are more than 60 years old. This is a great Rioja red wine above all, with a fine quality-price r
The Bodega Luis Cañas is together with Marqués de Riscal and Artadi, one of the most important wine cellars in La Rioja.
Juan Luis Cañas, the son of the founders of the wine cellar, created this new bodega in honour of his mother: Bodegas Amaren, meaning “Of the mother”, in order to produce an exceptional wine.
Amaren 2005, 100% Tempranillo grape, is an exceptional wine elaborated with wine stocks, which are over 60 years old, and with all the love of a son who wishes to pay special tribute to his mother.
- Conserve at wine cellar temperature (12 to14ºC)
- The ideal temperature for drinking this wine is 16 to18ºC and it could go up to 20ºC, but never any more.
- Open the bottle carefully and if some time will have to transpire before you drink it, prepare an ice bucket with cold water so that it does not reach room temperature (between 22 to 23ºC)
- Serve in top quality Rioja Reserva wine glasses. White wine glasses should be used.
- The glass can be filled to the halfway point, because the temperature can go up in the glass a couple of degrees without any problems.
It is an adult red wine with a good aromatic evolution and ever present and very juicy tannins. Proud of its passage along the palate, it is powerful and agile at the same time.
The ideal combination is with grilled red meats or oily fish like tuna or salmon. It can also be enjoyed with pâtés of game to which it will furnish a certain amount of acidity and also with average type cheeses, with a semi-soft pasta, without a great deal of flavour or overly soft, due to its body.
It also goes very well with desserts, especially if they are made with chocolate.
By the Equipo Team, headed by María Isabel Mijares. Secretary of the International Union of Oenologists. Vice President of the Spanish Association of Sommeliers. Founder of the Laboratory of Sensorial Analysis.
The wine is one of the traditional elements of the Mediterranean diet. In addition to water, it furnishes alcohol (the alcoholic level of this wine is 14.5% vol.), non-fermentable sugars, organic acids, mineral salts and very few vitamins of the B group, in addition to colouring and anti-oxidant substances, such as the polyphenolic components (flavonoids, resveratrol, tannins…), which are related to the prevention of cardio-vascular pathologies and certain carcinogenic mechanisms. In the wine, these components come mainly from the skin of the grape and from the pits, and for this reason, as it is a red wine, it has greater concentrations of these components than a white wine.
By Emma Ruiz Moreno, José Manuel Ávila Torres, Teresa Valero Gaspar, Susana del Pozo de la Calle and Gregorio Varela Moreiras. Spanish Nutrition Foundation.
