Bodegas Baigorri Crianza 2005
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Baigorri’s red wines begin with the 2005 Crianza made up of 100% Tempranillo aged for 12 months in new French oak. It sports a nose of toasty oak, pencil lead, spice box, black cherry, and blackberry that lead to a stylish, elegant Rioja with the balance, structure, and length to drink well through 2020.
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A fresh and appealing style of Rioja with aromas of dried cheese, dill, cedar, tobacco and kirsch. The palate has a pleasing juiciness and layered flavors of cherry, rapsberry and vanilla. Mocha and coffee flavors accent the well-oaked finish, and overall this is pure and kicking, but not too hefty or extracted. Drink now through 2013.
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Founded in 2002 by Jesus Baigorri who made his fortune in the travel industry and decided to fulfill his dream and become a vintner. In 2007 Jesus and his partners sold the winery to Pedro Martinez Hernandez.
Bodegas Baigorri returns winemaking to its origins in a state-of-the-art facility that is as much a work of art as the wines it creates. Built around the winemaking process, an elegant glass structure emerges from the soil and welcomes the visitor with a stunning display of the surrounding vineyards, emphasizing that it is here where the process begins. Diving more than 30 meters below the surface and relies on gravity to drive the fruit and must through its evolution towards world-class wine.
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.