Winemaker Notes
Bright crimson with purple hues. Elegant aromas of ripe red and black fruits, liquorice, sweet spice, and pastries combined with the minerality characteristic of all the wines from the Vina Lanciano estate. The bouquet is girdled with hints of forest shrub (rockrose) and other balsamic aromas (mint, fennel). Its attack is silky and elegant, showcasing fruit again on the palate as well as sweet and finely integrated tannins. Very persistent, its finish is pleasant and savory. A remarkable wine from Rioja able to boast of the region’s characteristic elegance and finesse.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Comples nose of red and black cherries freamed by cinnamon, clove and vanilla overtones. Intense and complex layered palate with a firm tannic structure.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2012 Bodegas Lan Viña Lunciano Reserva shows up big time as a star on the midway. TASTING NOTES: This wine is beautifully aromatic and complete on the palate. Its lovely and sophisticated aromas and flavors of dried leaves, red fruit and stones would be a perfect match with a subtly-seasoned roast leg of lamb. (Tasted: October 28, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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.