Viñedos del Contino & Guillaume Thienpont, Chorus, 2024 Variant:DUTY PAID giving it richness and depth

giving it richness and depth

fruit-forward red with a bit of extra depth from oak ageing

2017 is good news for drinkers and yet he sees nothing to suggest the wines won’t age well

showing great length and promise with aging

Viñedos del Contino & Guillaume Thienpont, Chorus, 2024 Variant:DUTY PAID giving it richness and depthChorus is something rather exciting: a meeting of two worlds, with Contino's old Rioja Alavesa vineyards as the stage and Guillaume Thienpont (the man behind Vieux Chteau Certan) lending his Bordeaux trained eye to the blend. Contino has long been one of Rioja's most compelling single estate producers, working from a 62 hectare finca on the Ebro that gives them a rare level of control from vine to bottle. The result here is a wine that thinks like