Winemaker Notes
Ideal with red meats, game, and cheese.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
A ripe and supple palate is marked by distinctive American oak ageing and feathery tender tannins. Deliciously suave in mouth, it is a jewel of clear Rioja Gran Reserva identity. Drinking Window 2017 - 2023.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
A substantial and flavorful wine, the 2008 Beronia Gran Reserva brings plenty of beautifully ripened red and black fruit, with a lovely accent of savory oak onto the palate. Though one may be tempted to drink this succulent wine by itself, I have to recommend pairing this delicious wine with roast leg of lamb and indulging in a delightful Rioja adventure. (Tasted: June 7, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
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.