Winemaker Notes
Clean, bright, medium deep depth robe with ruby tones. Intense and complex, toasted notes, cedar, spices, ripe fruits background. Fine, tasty, good acidity and very balanced. Long finish, spiced notes and white chocolate.
It matches with meat, mushrooms, rice. Also tasty with oily fish like tuna or cod along with cheeses like Emmental or Gruyere.
Blend: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
From Grupo Faustino, this single-vineyard red (90% Tempranillo and 10% Graciano) aged 30 months in French oak, whose presence is apparent on the nose alongside toffee, wild cherry, and cedar. It’s a bright, elegant, and white-peppered beauty with balanced acidity.
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James Suckling
A strong vintage with medium body. Dark, earthy plums and red cherries, spices and hints of earth and leather here. Good balance and persistence. Drink now and for the next decade. Elegant.
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Decanter
Marked with creamy vanilla new oak, this is a rich and polished wine that is a touch confected. It is full-bodied with notes of roast nuts and smoke; an exuberant style that people will love. Drinking Window 2018 - 2023
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
With a developed nose of forest floor, cigar box, sweet spices and cured meat, the 2009 Gran Reserva is the most classical within the Campillo range. It has plenty of tannins and feels a bit developed, like the fruit is now receding and the tannic structure might remain. I'd drink it sooner rather than later. 30,000 bottles produced. It's been in bottle since the summer of 2013, after 30 months in new barriques.
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.