Winemaker Notes
Bright ruby-cherry red. On the nose, red fruit, balsamic and spicy touches.Tasty, with good acidity, balanced and elegant in the mouth. Smooth and intense finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
This wine’s generous purple fruit has dark textural tones of black velvet. It’s floral and gamey, with plenty of volatile acidity giving an orange-blossom note. As one taster noted, it bridges “an old-school Rioja with New World body.”
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.