Bodega Lanzaga El Velado 2015
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As with other Rioja single-vineyard wines, I also tasted the 2015 El Velado that for some reason I missed last time. I am thoroughly impressed by this subtle red with chalky minerality from a very small plot of 80-year-old head-pruned vines at 600 meters in altitude.1,500 bottles produced.
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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.