Bodegas Baigorri Rioja Reserva 2003
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Robert
Parker
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Dark concentrated cherry red wine, lively and potent in nose with leather, liquorice and black pepper aromas. The primary compote fruit aromas are maintained. Balance between its tannins and acidity. A full body with an elegant bitter finish. It long persists on the palate. inviting you to continue enjoying it.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2003 Reserva went through malolactic in barrel followed by 18 months in new French oak. Dark ruby colored, it is a bit muted aromatically but with coaxing gives up notes of toasty oak, mineral, tobacco, and blackberry. On the palate, it is quite firmly structured but balanced. It has plenty of flesh, spicy black fruit flavors, and solid length. This wine will benefit from 3-5 years of additional cellaring and drink well through 2020. Bodegas Baigorri is said to be one of the showplace wineries of Rioja, designed by Basque architect Inaki Aspiazu Iza. The Bodegas ferments its wines with native yeasts and uses only French oak.
Other Vintages
2011-
James
Suckling
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.