Winemaker Notes
Deep garnet red appearance. On the nose a range of aromas of black fruit blackberry, blueberry, and ripe plum are wrapped in spicy notes of clove and cinnamon. On the palate it is powerful, broad and structured, with smooth tannins that blend with the fruity aromas and minerality that reflect the essence of their Viña Lanciano Estate. It is a wine of great personality and structure with an enjoyably long finish.
Pair with meat carpaccios, roast and chargrilled red meats. Perfect for long after-dinner conversations.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Fresh and focused, this rich, stylish red is marked by a pure beam of ripe cassis and black cherry fruit. Medium- to full-bodied and concentrated, with good tension and definition from the sculpted tannins, which are well-knit to a generous range of black fruit, wild herb, graphite, orange peel, smoke and spice flavors. Fragrant, floral finish. Tempranillo and Graciano.
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James Suckling
A bold and full-bodied Rioja with black cherries, bark, cigar box, licorice and black olives on the nose. Rich and flavorful with delicious salty undertones to the black fruit and spice. Well polished tannins.
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.