Winemaker Notes
Intense garnet color with bright red hues. Complex yet attractive nose of ripe fruit (plums, blackberry, and redcurrant), hints of sweet spice (clove, cinnamon), layers of coffee, cigar-box and the earthiness and minerality characteristic of all the wines made with grapes sourced from the "Vina Lanciano" estate.Ideal on its own but is great paired with grilled meats, spicy dishes and aged cheese.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
This red is bold and forceful, in the modern style. Plum and currant flavors mingle with cocoa and loamy earth notes, while muscular tannins and balsamic acidity provide a firm structure. Shows good depth. Tempranillo, Mazuelo and Graciano. Drink now through 2029.
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.