Bodegas Valdemar Conde de Valdemar Crianza 2006
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A great match for roasted chicken, grilled meats and various stews.
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In many ways, this is Valdemar’s best wine in that it’s always consistent and satisfying. The nose on this vintage offers a blast of sweet coconut and then black fruit aromas, and while there’s acidity front and center it doesn’t come across sharp. Instead, the focus is on plum and raspberry fruit and a finish that picks up steam.
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Pretty berry and cherry flavors are accented by vanilla, spice and smoke in this lithe, graceful red. Bright acidity keeps this lively. Drink now through 2012. 40,000 cases made.
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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.