Winemaker Notes
Varietal blend: a field blend of 80% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, 10% Garnacha.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2008 Brozal is a field blend of 80% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, and 10% Garnacha aged for 10 months in 50% new French oak. Deep crimson-colored, it offers up aromas of damp earth, mineral, espresso, spice box, black cherry, and blackberry. Layered on the palate with ample succulent fruit, it has excellent concentration, faultless balance, and enough structure to evolve for 3-5 years. It will offer a drinking window extending from 2013 to 2023.
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Wine & Spirits
This takes the bold stance of a bullfighter, sleek and focused, finely made. The flavors lead with cranberry and bright geeen herbs- they have the spicy zing of parsley fresh from the garden. The tannins carry youthful minerality, savory and long. Suited to several years of age or to roast game birds.
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.