Winemaker Notes
Bright red cherry color of medium intensity. Intense and complex, with a ripe red fruit bouquet and fine touches of the aging (spices, coffee, vanilla). Balanced and elegant, it maintains a
good level of freshness. Long, deep and pleasant.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Cherries, dried flowers and cedar on the nose. The palate is fleshy, with firm, fine grained tannins, composed fruit, a sense of freshness and a warmish finish. Drink or hold.
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.