Winemaker Notes
Ripe cherry color with ruby tones. Complex nose with a spicy background and red fruit notes, hints of jam, toffee, and chocolate. Good structure in the mouth, tasty, meaty, well balanced and fruity. Mature and serious finish.
Ideal to accompany legumes, stews, or grilled meats in sauces.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Spiced cherries, berries and touches of bark and dried mushrooms on the nose. Juicy and medium-bodied on the palate, with firm tannins and a fluid, medium-long finish.
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.