Winemaker Notes
Intense, bright cherry red with garnet tinges. Complex, with an elegant symphony of black fruits and forest fruits wrapped up with aromas of vanilla and spices. Full bodied with silky tannins and a very persistent and pleasant finish.
Matches perfectly with traditional cuisine like vegetables, grilled meats and cured cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Spiced plums, dark cherries and wet earth funk with some hazelnuts and chocolate. Juicy and firm with medium body and nicely chewy tannins. Long finish. Drink from 2026.
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Wine Spectator
Ripe black cherry and black plum fruit flavors are laced with lavish hints of vanilla, tar and cedar in this dark, deep red, animated by mandarin orange peel acidity. The lingering finish, trimmed by fine, taut tannins, offers medicinal herb and mineral details. Tempranillo, Mazuelo and Graciano. Drink now through 2035.
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.