Winemaker Notes
Intense cherry-red color with maroon rim. Generous aroma in which ripe fruit combines harmoniously with vanilla and licorices notes of vanilla and licorice. The palate is ample, full, round, fleshy. Long stately finish.
Ideal pairings include Any kind of meat. It matches with grilled or fried potatoes, mushrooms or ham, tasty or oily fish such as tuna or cod, medium-aged cheese & berry dessert or rice and all kind of pasta.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is very focused and pure with blueberry and blackberry aromas and flavors. Extremely polished and balanced. Full body. Tight and balanced. Centered and racy. Needs three to four years to show it all, but already a beauty.
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Wine Enthusiast
Ripe berry aromas teeter on raisiny desiccation but manage to stay upright and firm without losing clarity and freshness. This single-vineyard reserva from a warm year feels bold and dense while benefiting from popping acidity. Flavors of mocha, black coffee, dark berry fruits and prune finish with drying tannins and firm acidity that indicate that this has more good years ahead of it. Drink through 2040.
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.