Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
This maturing red retains freshness, with a plump texture and lively flavors. Currant, cocoa, licorice and loamy earth notes are supported by gentle tannins and orange peel acidity. Gentle, yet deep and focused. Not showy, but complete.
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James Suckling
Wonderfully refined and polished with compact fruit and ripe tannins. Medium body. Fine and caressing. Lovely ripe fruit, too. Lovely example of this vintage. Drink or hold.
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Wine & Spirits
A fat and happy Rioja, this mellows into a lovely, gentle wine over the course of several days. Its rich fruit has the flavor of black currants and wild blueberries, sustaining floral freshness even as the wine moves toward umami notes of mushrooms and smoke. Pour it with braised duck legs with prunes.
Beronia: Rooted in Friendship
Beronia was founded in 1973 by a group of friends who had a mission to create great wines to complement their culinary creations. The flagship winery, one of the most sustainable in Europe, is located in La Rioja, one of the most important wine regions in Spain. The second winery, solely dedicated to the production of verdejo is located in Rueda, the home of this Spanish variety.
Beronia Rioja is located in the Rioja Alta village of Ollauri, where the River Ebro and Cantabrian mountains shape the land. Rooted in the region, the winery pays tribute to Los Berones, a celtic tribe who inhabited the region in 3rd Century BC, the origins of Rioja. Privileged to be part of two iconic Spanish wine regions, Rioja and Rueda, Beronia is committed to sustainability and finding the perfect balance between honoring local winemaking traditions while pioneering advance modern techniques to make the very best wines the land can produce.
Created by friends who loved food and wine, Beronia remains rooted in friendship, striving to bring people together around the table to enjoy good food, good wine and most importantly good company.
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.