Bodegas Valdemar Conde de Valdemar Reserva 2009
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Especially suited to accompany home-cooked casseroles, roasts and grilled red meat, game or Iberian-pork.
90% Tempranillo, 5% Mazuelo, 5% Graciano
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Cigar box, clove and leather notes frame a core of dried cherry, tobacco and tea flavors in this traditional red. Firm tannins underlie a silky texture, while orange peel acidity keeps this fresh. Focused and lively. Drink now through 2023.
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Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.
Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.