Bodega El Angosto
Name Winery: Bodega El Angosto
Address: Finca Santa Rosa, Ctra. Fontanars (CV-660) KM 24, 46870 Ontinyent
Telephone: 962 380 638
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Sponsor of Vino Valencia Wine Night at Tahine, January 20, 2010, with:
- Angosto Negre 2007
The bodega is in a grand old Valencian farm-cum-manor house, Finca Santa Rosa, in the Vall d’Albaida near Ontinyent, just the Valencia side of Alicante. It belongs to the Cambra family, who have a 150-year old nursery business which this is part of, and offers a fascinating glimpse into rural life of yesteryear, as a place where all of the agricultural process was concentrated in one place – there are some wonderful old implements dotted around.
The surname resonates in today’s Valencian wine world largely as a result of the exploits of one of the region’s most prominent young winemakers, Rafael Cambra, who is involved in the El Angosto wines in an advisory capacity. Working in conjunction with Rafael Cambra is another young and highly-trained winemaker, the personable and enthusiastic Oscar Priego. Despite the long-established nursery business and the family’s relationship with vines as part of this, the El Angosto project dates only from 2004.
There are four wines, three reds — El Angosto (a blend of Syrah, Graciano, Petit Verdot, Garnacha Tintorera and Malbec), La Tribu (50% Monastrell and 50% Syrah) and Los Almendros (Garnacha Tintorera, Marselan and Syrah) — alongside El Angosto Blanco (Verdejo, Muscat à Petits Grains, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay).
The fascinating diversity conveys the access to a great range of different vines that the family business provides, but these are by no means show-off wines at high prices. The wines run from under 5 euros in the case of La Tribu and the Angosto Blanco to just over 6 for El Angosto red and a little over 10 euros for Los Almendros.
These last two reds share the highest-ranking of any DO Valencia wine in the 2010 edition of Guía Peñín (92 points) and the other two aren’t far behind at 88 and 89 respectively.
