Winemaker Notes
Deep picota cherry red with an intense ruby rim. An intense and elegant nose. Floral notes and red fruit which blend with sweet spices (Vanilla) and roasted coffee. A long lingering finish with the balance of great Riojas.
This wine makes a perfect pairing with rice dishes, vegetables, venison and red meats.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A Rioja with pretty, ripe fruit and hints of walnut and chocolate. Refined, lightly chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. Firm and structured. Delicious now. Why wait?
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Wine Enthusiast
Deep ruby in the glass, this wine offers aromas of cassis, dark plum and caramel. It is full in the mouth, with flavors of black cherry, raspberry, bittersweet cacao, tobacco leaf and baking spices. Deep-set tannins taper down to a drawn-out finish.
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Wine & Spirits
An oak-forward Rioja when first poured, this develops a firm essence of red cherry fruit as it opens with air. The rich oak tannins need meat to assuage them, but the bright fruit keeps it clean and easy.
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.