Laventura Rioja 'La Nave' 2019
A smooth easy drinking Rioja with plenty of red fruit and soft tannins. Quaffable for a weeknight and also a perfect partner for food. Lots of acidity and warmth from the alcohol make this a great red for feeling cosy but pop it in the fridge and you have a heatwave in a bottle.
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Stats
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Colour > Red
Producer > Macroberts & Canal
Country > Spain
Region > La Rioja
Vintage > 2019
Grapes > Tempranillo
Farming > Organic
ABV > 13.5%
Size > 750ml
Serve
Our top tips to get the most out of this bottle
🌡️ > Serve at room temperature
🍷 > Benefits from half an hour in a decanter
😋 > Flavours you will find – plum, cherry, blackberry
🍕 > Try with kebabs
🥳 > A brilliant food wine for small plates, cured meats and cheese
📅 > Best enjoyed 2023-2025
Eat
Try the recipe we created to pair perfectly with this wine
Ingredients
For 4 people
For flatbreads:
110g plain flour
20g wholemeal flour
4g table salt
70ml water
4 x pork belly strips
2 handfuls of sliced white cabbage
3 tomatoes sliced
4 tbsp of natural yoghurt
Squeeze of spicy sauce of your choice
1 tsp of table salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp cider vinegar
Sea salt (enough to cover the pork strips)
Method
Starting with the flatbreads, mix your flour, salt and water together and knead for 5 minutes.
Divide the dough into 50g balls and flatten into flat breads. Get these as thin as you can (we use a pasta machine to achieve this.) Fry the flatbreads until cooked (roughly 30 seconds on each side). Wrap in foil until you are ready to serve.
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees celsius. Place the pork belly strips into a dish so that the skin side is facing up, then cover with a layer of seasalt. Cook for 30 minutes, or until the skin is crispy, then turn down the oven to 160 degrees celsius and cook for another 45 minutes.
As the pork cooks; mix your vinegar, sugar and table salt together and add in your cabbage to pickle it.
Once the pork has been removed from the oven scrape the excess salt off the top and slice into chunks.
Now it’s time to prepare… place the pork onto the wrap with generous servings of yoghurt, spicy sauce and scatter over the cabbage and tomatoes.