Bodegas Franco-Espanolas Rioja Bordon Reserva 2011
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This wine managed to transform the heat of 2011 into an elegant, high-toned Rioja, sanguine and salty with tart red berry and plum flavors. The tannins last, dusting the fruit with some peppery volatility, even as the wine holds onto its red fruit flavor. Fully mature and ready to pour with grilled flank steak.
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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.