Winemaker Notes
Ruby red with medium intensity. Medium-high intensity aroma. Surprising for its frank, floral aroma with notes of berries, strawberries, licorice, hints of vanilla and a little cinnamon. It is fresh, with bright acidity and silky tannins.
Perfect to enjoy with all kinds of tapas. Rice dishes, seasonal vegetable dishes, charcuterie and cheeses.
Blend: 94% Tempranillo, 6% Garnacha
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Lan Rioja Crianza is fresh, bright, and zesty on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine brings aromas and flavors of chalky notes, hints of savory spices, and stone fruits to the fore. Serve it with crisp pork belly. (Tasted: June 7, 2024, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
Aromas of cherries, sweet spices, tobacco leaves and coffee. Medium-bodied with slightly rough tannins, but pleasingly chewy and spicy. Drink now or hold.
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Vinous
The 2020 Crianza is 94% Tempranillo and 6% Garnacha sourced from Rioja Alta and Alavesa. Aged for 13 months in French and American oak barrels, this garnet-colored wine features a black fruit nose with sour cherry and oaky notes. Dry and grippy, the palate lingers on the caramel-oak 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.