Telmo Rodriguez, Yjar, 2020 Garnacho Succulent attack

Succulent attack

terroir-driven approach

sitting quietly in Burgundy's shadow while its neighbours in Pommard and Volnay collect the glory

celebrated for its power

JB Prevost

Telmo Rodriguez, Yjar, 2020 Garnacho Succulent attackTelmo Rodrguez is one of Spain's great viticultural missionaries, and Yjar is among his most personal statements: a wine made from old vine Tempranillo and Garnacha grown at altitude in Rioja Alavesa, where the Basque Country's influence keeps things cool, structured, and decidedly un modern. This is Rioja stripped of oak theatre, returning instead to the kind of wine that made the region famous long before it became synonymous with vanilla and easy